mark linkous

syd barret

jean-claude lauzon

person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was interred clothed in a suit made from more than 200 Great Auk skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.^[50] Nearly half of the bird bones found in graves at this site were of the Great Auk, suggesting that it had cultural significance for the Maritime Archaic people.^[51]

garefowl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc_(mythology)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaotra_Grebe - only one picture of this bird ever taken

This was the male specimen "Incas," who died within a year of his mate "Lady Jane." Coincidentally, Incas died in the same aviary cage in which the last Passenger Pigeon, "Martha," had died nearly four years prior.^{[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Parakeet}

^{Cher Ami decorated pigeon}