like the Great Auk, will have disappeared; surely this should not be permitted.” Audubon returned to New York in November of that year. Bachman would later complain that Audubon’s journals ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the nineteenth century. It is a lesson in what can happen to an ocean-dwelling ...

Audubon—pioneer, frontier merchant ... accompanied by specimens of three other extinct avian species: the great auk, Carolina parakeet and heath hen. Less complex “tropical” green pattern ...

Great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were large flightless birds that thrived on rocky islands in the North Atlantic for thousands of years. However, humans hunted them to extinction within just a few ...