Books like Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

I really enjoyed the first half of the book, though it was depressing to read story after story about how people worked hard to help the heath hen, passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet and ivory billed woodpecker only to be met with ultimate doom. But, I found the second half more tedious to read. There are two detailed chapters on the "afterlife" of two stuffed passenger pigeons (Martha and Buttons, the last in existence and the last in the wild). I don't really think we needed to know every detail about where Buttons was shot, for example. I also found the details of Martha's life and living conditions a little lacking. I found the Labrador duck and great auk stories lacking in actual information about the birds in general. It's possible that it's hard to find such information.Nonetheless, I did learn something from this book that might help me with my future work with helping endangered species. And, I did learn a little more about most of the species mentioned in the book.