Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around ... Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of Eastern and Central North America to learn about those birds ...

Scientists cannot even say why the Carolina parakeet went extinct ... birds. Editor's Note: In “The Lost Parrot,” we mistakenly characterized the Carolina parakeet as “North America ...

Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the nineteenth century would have been familiar with ...

Triceratops lived in North America about 68-66 million years ago ... The moa, native to New Zealand, became extinct around AD 1400. These flightless birds, related to modern-day kiwis, were some of ...

This is the common and familiar “sea­gull” across much of North America—from coastal beaches ... often dark wash basally (most heavily marked birds look dark-tailed); tail band sometimes ...