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The Carolina parakeet : glimpses of a vanished bird / by Snyder, Noel F. R.(CARDINAL)271160;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-148) and index.
Subjects: Carolina parakeet.; Extinct animals;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The Carolina parakeet : America's lost parrot in art and memory / by Weatherford, Carole Boston,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-75).
Subjects: Carolina parakeet; Extinct birds; Extinct animals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The lost parrots of America / by Dunnahoo, Terry.(CARDINAL)712526;
Discusses the extinction of several species of parrots, including the Carolina parakeet and the Cuban red macaw.
Subjects: Birds; Birds; Extinct animals; Extinct birds; Parrots; Parrots;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hope is the thing with feathers : a personal chronicle of vanished birds / by Cokinos, Christopher.(CARDINAL)330257;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-346).The Carolina Parakeet -- The Forgotten Parakeet -- Exotic -- Hope in a Cage -- The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- In Search of the Lord God Bird -- Returnings -- The Heath Hen -- The Fire Birds -- Capawack -- A Phoenix on the Vineyard -- The Passenger Pigeon -- The Dark Beneath Their Wings -- The Boy and the Pigeon -- Martha's Story -- The Labrador Duck and the Great Auk -- The Strangest Sea -- In a Northern Gulf: Journey to Bird Rock.An award-winning nature writer weaves natural history and personal experience into the dramatic story of the last days of six North American bird species. With a compelling blend of science, history, politics, and memoir, Cokino draws on unpublished photographs and documents to make these long-vanished birds come alive.
Subjects: Extinct birds;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The lost bird project [videorecording] / by McGrain, Todd.; Meyer, Muffie.; Dickson, Debra.; Middlemarch Films.;
This one hour documentary tells the story of how these extinct birds (the Labrador Duck, Great Auk, Heath Hen, Carolina Parakeet and Passenger Pigeon) came to meet their fate, and how their disappearance has left a hole in the American landscape and our collective memories. Sculptor Todd McGrain brought their vanished forms back by permanently placing his bronze memorials at the location of each bird's demise.DVD.
Subjects: Extinct birds.; Public sculpture.; Public art.; McGrain, Todd.;
© 2013., Lost Bird Project,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lost animals : extinction and the photographic record / by Fuller, Errol,author.(CARDINAL)330600;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-238) and index.Atitlán giant grebe -- Alaotra grebe -- Pink-headed duck -- Heath hen -- Wake Island rail -- Laysan rail -- Eskimo curlew -- Passenger pigeon -- Carolina parakeet -- Paradise parrot -- Laughing owl -- Ivory-billed woodpecker -- Imperial woodpecker -- New Zealand bush wren -- Aldabra brush warbler -- Bachman's warbler -- Kauaʻi ʻOʻo -- ʻOʻu -- Mamo -- Poʻouli -- Guam flycatcher -- Thylacine -- Greater short-tailed bat -- Caribbean monk seal -- Yangtze River dolphin -- Quagga -- Schomburgk's deer -- Bubal hartebeest -- Appendix.A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or wildlife parks, and in some cases depict the last known individual of the species. Lost Animals is a unique photographic record of extinction, presented by a world authority on vanished animals. Richly illustrated throughout, this handsome book features photographs dating from around 1870 to as recently as 2004, the year that witnessed the demise of the Hawaiian Po'ouli. From a mother Thylacine and her pups to birds such as the Heath Hen and the Carolina Parakeet, Errol Fuller tells the story of each animal, explains why it became extinct, and discusses the circumstances surrounding the photography. Covering 28 extinct species, this book includes familiar examples like the last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, and one of the last Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, photographed as it peers quizzically at the hat of one of the biologists who has just ringed it. But the book includes rare images as well, many never before published. Collected together here for the first time, these photographs provide a tangible link to animals that have now vanished forever, in a book that brings the past to life while delivering a warning for the future.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Extinct animals.; Extinct animals; Extinct birds.; Extinct birds; Extinct mammals.; Extinct mammals; Photography of birds.; Photography of animals.; Extinction (Biology);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Audubon's wildlife ; With selections from the writings of John James Audubon / by Audubon, John James,1785-1851.(CARDINAL)138932; Teale, Edwin Way,1899-1980.(CARDINAL)122747;
Audubon and wildlife -- Woods, fields, and brushland: Wild turkey -- Passenger pigeon -- Black-capped chickadee -- Phoebe -- Rose-breasted grosbeak -- Pine grosbeak -- Opossum -- Winter wren -- Crow -- Wood thrush -- Marsh and swamp: Ivory-billed woodpecker -- Cougar -- Swallow-tailed kite -- Clapper rail -- Pied-billed grebe -- Carolina parakeet -- Wood ibis -- Lake and river: Canada goose -- Mink -- Frontier river -- Catfish of the Ohio -- Otter -- Wildlife on the St. Johns -- Beaver -- Bald eagle -- Prairie, desert, and mountain: Coyote or prairie wolf -- Whooping crane -- Turkey vulture -- Bison -- Snowy owl -- Sea and shore: Gannet -- Eggers of Labrador -- Great auk -- Arctic tern -- Puffin -- Florida Keys -- Zenaida dove -- Wildlife since Audubon.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Birds; Birds; Mammals; Mammals;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Raising the dead / by Rash, Ron,1953-(CARDINAL)266641;
Last service -- Under Jocassee -- Panther tree -- The vanquished -- The search -- Jocassee, 1916 -- Fall creek -- Shee-show -- On the Keowee -- At Boone Creek Landing -- Deep water -- Compass Creek -- Watauga County: 1803 -- In Dismal Gorge -- The release -- Whipporwill -- Antietam -- Shelton Laurel -- The dowry -- Black-eyed Susans -- Calenture -- Wolf Laurel -- Speckled trout -- In the barn -- Above Goshen Creek -- Barn burning: 1967 -- Work, for the night is coming -- The debt -- Watauga County, 1974 -- Beyond -- Burning the field -- At Reid Hartley's junkyard -- The garnet -- The emerging -- Kephart in the Smokies -- Barbed wire -- The request -- Madison County: 1934 -- Brightleaf -- At Leicester Cemetery -- Coke box -- Madison County: June, 1999 -- The wolves at the Asheville Zoo -- The watch -- Bartram leaves Jocassee -- Carolina parakeet -- Taking down the lines -- A homestead on the horsepasture -- Bottomland -- Tremor -- Analepsis -- Jocassee -- The day the gates closed -- Beyond the dock.
Subjects: Poetry.; Loss (Psychology); Mountain life;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 15
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Lost animals, disappearing worlds : stories of extinction / by Allen, Barbara,(Ordained minister)Author(DLC)n 2023051183;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index.Part One: Introduction -- 1. Extinction -- 2. Memorializing Grief -- Part Two: The Portraits -- The Aurochs -- The Dodo -- The Rodrigues Solitaire -- Steller's Sea Cow -- The Great Auk -- The Spectacled Cormorant (or Pallas's Cormorant) -- The Falkland Islands Wolf -- The Quagga -- The Tarpan -- The Rocky Mountain Locust -- The Japanese Wolf (or Honshu Wolf) -- The Passenger Pigeon -- The Carolina Parakeet -- The Syrian Wild Ass -- The Heath Hen -- The Thylacine -- The Xerces Blue Butterfly -- The Arabian Ostrich --The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- The St Helena Earwig -- The Eskimo Curlew -- The Tecopa Pupfish -- The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog and the Northern Gastric-Brooding Frog/Eungella Gastric-Brooding Frog -- The Dusky Seaside Sparrow -- The Golden Toad -- The Pyrenean Ibex -- The Baiji (Yangtze River) Dolphin -- The Pinta Island Tortoise -- The Bramble Cay Melomys -- The O'ahu Tree Snail -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index.A moving and motivating collection of portraits of extinct species, revealing the profound implications of their disappearance.   This book presents thirty-one extinct species through personal portraits. The intimate approach not only highlights each particular species but also explores the broader implications of losing a species forever. How do we honor such a loss? Can we grieve for species we never knew? These animals range from the well-known passenger pigeon, thylacine, and great auk, to lesser-known creatures like the Arabian ostrich, Saint Helena earwig, and Bramble Cay melomys. Through her poignant portraits, Barbara Allen not only tugs on the heartstrings but also aims to inspire readers to protect vulnerable and endangered species today, motivating us to play a positive role in conserving our planet's biodiversity.
Subjects: Informational works.; Natural history.; Biodiversity.; Biodiversity conservation.; Extinct animals.; Endangered species.; Extinction (Biology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 5
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Now is the time to collect : Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896 / by Brinkman, Paul D.,author.(CARDINAL)329906;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index.One or two good men -- The strongest kind of competition -- We look for great results -- A real parrot and monkey time -- Rather a bad beginning: April 20-30 -- Never a finer drink: May 1-5 -- A crow's idea of tenderness: May 6-20 -- All drive and rush and sensational effects -- Life seems more worth living: May 21-June 2 -- A building as nearly perfect as possible -- A greater misfortune than we deserved: June 3-11 -- His life or mine: June 12-20 -- A disgrace to science -- Scrimmage with a leopard: June 21-July 1 -- An inexplicable fix -- Omelette à l'ostriche: July 2-15 -- Somebody must pay: July 16-24 -- A pretty state of affairs: July 25-30 -- An orange to be squeezed: July 31-August 8 -- Finishing the fight: August 9-16 -- No alternative but to turn back: August 17-September 24 -- Bringing it all back home -- Better than seeing the animals alive -- Unplanned obsolescence."Natural history museums have always been centers for environmental education and preservation, but their history in wildlife conservation is more complicated than might be assumed. For example, from its beginning in 1893, the Field Museum of Natural History made zoology a high priority, hiring Daniel Giraud Elliot to develop a world class collection of animal specimens that would help the new Chicago museum become an influential player on the world scene. After the extinction of the dodo and Carolina parakeet, and with the American bison population then in sudden and steep decline, nineteenth-century naturalists like Elliot feared many more vulnerable species would soon die out with the continuing spread of Western civilization. Believing extinction inevitable, many naturalists reacted not by trying to save species, but by salvaging rare specimens for science. With the ambition of making the Field Museum the premiere site for the study of soon-to-be extinct animals, Elliot persuaded museum patrons to fund an urgent collecting expedition to British Somaliland. There, he led a team to hunt and kill hundreds of animal specimens with the indispensable assistance of innovative taxonomist Carl Akeley, whose breathtakingly life-like dioramas of rare animal groups helped solidify the museum's reputation and remain popular to this day. Based on Elliot's recently re-discovered journal and other archival materials, "Now Is the Time to Collect" is a riveting narrative history of the 1896 expedition, the first of its kind by an American museum and a case study in what author Paul D. Brinkman calls "salvage zoology"-the practice of aggressively collecting rare animal specimens for museum preservation. In reconstructing Elliot's expedition and the institutional history behind it, Brinkman provides a detailed portrait of late nineteenth-century zoological practice prior to the emergence of the conservation movement in which Akeley later became an influential leader. Unfolding largely against the backdrop of East Africa and its peoples, and richly illustrated with historical photographs of the expedition, this book also provides intriguing views of Somalia during the colonial era"--
Subjects: Field Museum African Expedition (1896); Scientific expeditions; Zoology; Zoological specimens; Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915.; Akeley, Carl E., 1864-1926.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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