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.
A webcam in landlocked Leicestershire has captured footage of a Little Auk being eaten by a Peregrine Falcon. The alcid was seen in the clutches of the falcon at Leicester Cathedral at 3.10 pm on ...