#sixth extinction

this was the actual script for sixth extinction

I created the interior illustrations for the young reader’s adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, published by Henry Holt. I loved both versions of the book, and I learned so much illustrating these!

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of Eastern and Central North America to learn about those birds that I might've witnessed had I been alive only a century ago!

And as the last kauai o’o sings his duet, alone, no one will respond to his song.

#XFFlickedSwitch2023 24/27

A passenger pigeon, extinct since the early 1900s. R.I.P. I tried to get a decent photo but there were too many lights and screens.