extinct birds

Explores 515 of the most threatened birds on Earth by continent, including information on their physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and the threats each species faces. Features full color photographs, including a number that are the first published images of certain species, and illustrations for seventy-five species of which no known photos exist.

Presents information on the last days of six vanished species of birds including the Passenger Pigeon, the Carolina Parakeet, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the Heath Hen, Great Auk, and the Labrador Duck.

Simple text and photographs introduce endangered and extinct birds, including the California condor, crested ibis, dodo bird, and passenger pigeons.

Reviews the imperiled birds of the U.S. and Canada, and tropical birds that survive in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

A color-illustrated examination of the connections between birds and dinosaurs that describes prehistoric birds; similarities between bird skeletons and some fossilized dinosaur skeletons; Chinese fossils that suggest that some dinosaurs had feather-like coverings; and theories on why dinosaurs may have had feathers.

An account of the extinction of a bird called the giant grebe. Follows his decline from the 1960s to the late 1980s in Guatemala.

A study of the world's recently extinct bird species which have been unable to adapt and survive.

Discusses the history of the passenger pigeon, which at one time made up one-quarter of the birds of America but is now extinct.

Discusses the first bird, extinct birds including the roc, great auk, and dodo, and forty-six living species of birds that lack the power of flight.