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 ...

The great auk was hunted in the Scottish Isles ... I decided to buy a copy, digital images of the whole thing, 900 pages, and ...

This is Birkhead’s account of the first to go—the Great Auk, written after he found himself the recipient of the archive of a man who accumulated more Great Auk skins than anyone else.