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Extinct birds come alive in a cartoonist's imagination

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog

By Jessica Hamzelou

14 November 2012

See more boids in our gallery:Memories of extinct birds, real and imagined

YOU will know the sad fate of the famous flightless dodo. And you might have heard the chilling story of how the last known pair of great auks met their untimely demise as a result of collectors’ greed. Less familiar, perhaps, are the tales of the needless smut and the blue piddle.

Extinct Boids is a wonderful collection of drawings of birds that once lived on Earth, alongside some living only in the imagination. Last year, when film-maker Ceri Levy held an exhibition of artworks…

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