Discover how the Labrador Duck disappeared in the late 1800s despite never being a prized game bird or major commercial target.

Glen Chilton was teaching biology at the University of Calgary, a mild-mannered ornithologist specializing in sparrow song, when he was asked to write a short account of the Labrador duck for a ...

You have never seen a live Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius); the species went extinct in the late 1800s. The rather plain-looking bird isn't found on display in many museums, and other ...

On Friday afternoon, a group of about 30 bird enthusiasts set off around Elmira on a hunt for the Labrador duck — extinct since 1878. They succeeded, sort of. The group, some of about 100 expected ...

I grew up in the “Buttonwood Settlement” (the Brand Park area) of Elmira's Southside, where my Janowski family has lived since 1872. Our first homestead was on Robinson Street at the end of Horner ...

Artist Todd McGrain's sculptures of five extinct North American birds are now on display in Smithsonian gardens. Courtesy of The Lost Bird Project It has been almost 15 years since artist Todd McGrain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Labrador duck depicted wintering at Montauk Point, Long Island.© Bloopityboop, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post The ...

When it comes to extinct birds, the ones that come to mind first are those that are famous for being driven to extinction, such as the dodo or the great auk. However, the Labrador duck is a bird that ...