Extinction

Links about extinction as a process and some species to have succumbed.

6th Extinction

• A Disappearing Planet

• Alliance for Zero Extinction

• Australia's Extinct and Threatened Bird Species

• EDGE of Existence

• Extinction Week (2014)

• Lost Bird Project

• More species slide to extinction (2006)

• New Zealand Birds Online: Statuc Extinct

• The noughties: a decade of lost species

Dodo

• Complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead (2014)

• Dodo skeleton find in Mauritius (2006)

• How humanity first killed the dodo then lost it as well (2016)

• Laser scans of complete Dodo skeleton reveal a little-known bird not doomed to extinction (2014)

• The Dodo and its Kindred, by H. E. Strickland (1848)

Great Auk

• Plot hatched to reintroduce extinct great auk to British shores (2016)

Passenger Pigeon

• A century without the Passenger Pigeon (2014)

• Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon

• Project Passenger Pigeon

• The Passenger Pigeon (1922), by William W. Thompson

• 50 exhibits, lectures, and films that recall the Passenger Pigeon with works of art and genius (2014 & 2018)

Other Species

• Alaotra grebe confirmed extinct (2010)

• Extinct Carolina parakeet gives glimpse into evolution of American parrots (2012)

• Long-extinct heath hen comes to life in archival film (2014)

• North America’s Oldest New Bird? (2013)

• The Thylacine Museum

• The tragic tale of the Quelili (2008)