Christopher Cokinos <br/><br/>
Hope is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds 

 -  Jermey P. Tarcher/ Penguin  2009 
 - 	369 pages : illustrations  
<br/><br/>	The Carolina parakeet -- The ivory-billed woodpecker -- The heath hen -- The passenger pigeon -- The Labrador duck and the great auk. 
<br/><br/> A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781585427222 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> 	      Extinct birds -- North America.     Extinct birds.     North America.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>598.2 COK-H