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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013).

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. Princeton University Press, September 15, 2014. We have a lot of source material. What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone.

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