PREVIEW: #DODO: Excerpt from a conversation with author Stephen Moss forhis new work, TEN BIRDS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD:  re the 3 foot tall Dodo Bird of the Mauritius Islands and doubts for the scientific theory of extinction.  More later.

1917 Dodo

https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Birds-That-Changed-World/dp/1541604466

In Ten Birds That Changed the World, naturalist and author Stephen Moss tells the gripping story of this long and intimate relationship through key species from all seven of the world’s continents. From Odin’s faithful raven companions to Darwin’s finches, and from the wild turkey of the Americas to the emperor penguin as potent symbol of the climate crisis, this is a fascinating, eye-opening, and endlessly engaging work of natural history