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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...