Country diary: I see 38 bird species in a day – but does it matter?

I’m counting, but not counting. The highlight, though, has to be those those gentleman thugs, the greater black-backed gulls ...
Forbes

A Biologist Tells The Story Of America’s Only Two Native Parakeets — One Lost To The World Forever In 1918 And Another That Thrives In South Texas

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Parrots are not an uncommon bird species — there are about ...
The Conversation

The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums

Jack Ashby is affiliated with the Natural Sciences Collections Association. One day in August, 1875, a greyish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the ...