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Last Flight of the Marlins

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Roger Gosden

Memories of the Canadian wilderness forty years earlier were still sharp in Dr. Robert Morris’s mind as an old man in the 1930s. A pioneering New York surgeon, he was also a distinguished naturalist, horticulturist, and poet. One day in … Continue reading →

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Last Flight of the Dough Bird (Eskimo curlew)

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Roger Gosden

Everyone knows the most abundant bird in North America was driven to extinction a century ago by market hunting and habitat destruction. The very last passenger pigeon, called Martha, died in Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. But few people know the … Continue reading →

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