Oiseaux disparus

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A photograph of an animal long-gone evokes a feeling of loss more than a painting ever can. Often tinted sepia or black-and-white, these images were mainly taken in zoos or wildlife parks, and in a handful of cases featured the last known individual of the species. There are som…

This illustrated book tells the story of North America's Passenger Pigeon, a bird species that--like the Tyrannosaur, the Mammoth, and the Dodo--has become one of the great icons of extinction.

At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end…

This illustrated book tells the story of North America's Passenger Pigeon, a bird species that--like the Tyrannosaur, the Mammoth, and the Dodo--has become one of the great icons of extinction.

"Hundreds (maybe thousands) of bird species and subspecies have become extinct over the last 700 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. This fully updated second edition of Extinct Birds, including dozens of newly described or re-evaluated taxa, reviews…