Christopher Cokinos
Auteur de Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
A propos de l'auteur
Christopher Cokinos is an award-winning writer and poet, and a professor of English at Utah State University. He has received the Whiting Writers' Award, the Glasgow Prize for an emerging writer in nonfiction, and the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award.
Œuvres de Christopher Cokinos
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1963
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Prix et distinctions
- Whiting Writers' Award (2003)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Vous aimerez peut-être aussi
Auteurs associés
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 398
- Popularité
- #60,946
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 14
- Favoris
- 2
I find it terribly sad that no one knows the exact date of the demise of the Carolina Parakeet, but then again that's probably true of many extinct species. Right? How do we really know when we have seen the very last whatever? Here are details from Hope is the Thing with Feathers that will stick with me for a very long time: the Heath Hen has been compared to the Greater Prairie Chicken for their myriad of similarities. Their mating sounds are practical identical. Is that why no one took the extinction of the Heath Hen seriously? Were they so abundant they fell victim to overhunting; were they that easy to massacre? Is that what happened to the Passenger Pigeon? The cruelty inflicted on these birds was difficult to read. Cokinos gets into the question of cloning. Can you clone a species which has gone completely extinct? Can we have a Jurassic Park moment on a less dangerous scale?
Besides hunting, another factor wreaking havoc on bird populations was deforestation. Singer Sewing Machine purchased the nesting grounds of Lord God birds. Then they sold the rights to logging companies who cleared the land, destroying everything in its path. This happened over and over again.… (plus d'informations)