Resources

Books read:

Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Scott Weidensaul

Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding, Scott Weidensaul

John James Audubon: The Making of an American, Richard Rhodes

Dodo: A Brief History, Erroll Fuller

Extinct Birds, Erroll Fuller

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in An Age of Extinctions, David Quammen

Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, Christopher Cokinos

The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
The Ghost with Trembling Wings, Scott Weidensaul
Nature’s Ghosts, Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
A Passion for Birds, Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

Online Resources:

Wikipedia list of extinct birds

Index of Extinct Birds via the Dutch National Natural History Museum.

Why the Passenger Pigeon Became Extinct, via the New Yorker

Vanished Birds of North America at the Smithsonian

The Lost Bird Project

The Wild Bird Fund

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