Nextinction

The Boids are back in town ... The follow-up to the award-winning EXTINCT BOIDS, this book features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman. This time the focus is not on the birds that are gone, but the ones that there's still time to save. These are the 192 Critically Endangered birds on the IUCN Red List, species such as the Giant Ibis, the Kakapo, the Sumatran Ground-cuckoo and the iconic Spoon-billed Sandpiper – these, along with a number of classic Steadman creations such as the Unsociable Lapwing, are the NEARLY-EXTINCT BOIDS. Woids are again by author, conservationist and film-maker Ceri Levy. Together, Ceri and Ralph are THE GONZOVATIONISTS.

Table of Contents:
Theory of Nextinction Nextinction Awaits The Guano Collector The Science and How a Small Amount of Money Can Save a Species Riffling Through Ralph’s Drawers Blow Your Penny Whistle An Explorer’s Tale Spoon-billed Sandpiper Javan Green Magpie Teeny Spint Red-headed Vulture Rock Ptarmigan Big-breasted Conspicuous Tit Gregorian Thwacksplat Urban Council Skip Chick Blue-beaked Waddle Hey Look Out! Twim Wheedle-nit Brown Minor Blackbeak Spot-tailed Neck Back Maltese Mayhem Blue-beaked Splatwack Sociable Lapwing Blue-throated Macaw Titograph Edwards’s Pheasant The Extinct Birds Coffee Table Great Indian Bustard Philippine Cockatoo Bates’s Weaver Bengal Florican Lesser Florican Greater Florican’t Glowing Orange Wotalotiblot Orange-beaked Ten Percenter California Condor Chatham Shag Red-crowned Crane Akohekohe Poo-uli Mauritius Olive White-eye Negros Bleeding-heart Bogota Rail Ou Madagascar Pochard Djibouti Francolin Long-billed Tailorbird Taita Apalis Taita Thrush Elevator Whitebill Hungarian Flappabout Blue-beaked Flybynight Orange-beaked Thrust Siberian Crane Cerian Crane Yellow-Bellied Training Crane Sulu Hornbill Cerulean Paradise-flycatcher Archer’s lark Isabela Oriole Araripe Manakin Uluguru Bush-shrike Chinese Crested Tern Long-billed Tailorbird Diving Orange Spronk Javan Green Magpie Cebu Flowerpecker Banggai Crow Black-chinned Monarch White-eyed River-martin Orange Nutflap Stawking Tit Ivory-billed Woodpecker Black-fronted Tern Black Diver Red-beaked White Angel Yellow and Pink Boobies Yellow-breasted Bluewing or Bling Yellow Chairfinch Blue-beaked Blackhead Red Finch One, and Red Finch Two Yellow-beaked Blue Loomer Decorated Epaulette Swoop Owl Red-beaked Ducky Black Flutterwot Kakapo Rio Branco Antbird Rio de Janeiro Antwren Stresemann’s Bristlefront Fringe-backed Fire-eye Royal Cinclodes White-bellied Cinclodes Antioquia (or Urrao) Antpitta Brazilian Bluelid Mottled Cornford Slender-billed Curlew Crested Shelduck Jerdon’s Courser Giant Ibis Javan Lapwing Kittlitz’s Murrelet Elegant Sunbird M. Rueck Rueck’s Blue-flycatcher Cebu Flowerpecker Zapata Rail Cuban Spotted Rail Yellow-beaked Red-legged Bluet Puccini Frisk Flightless Boid Waved Albatross Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Streak-breasted Bulbul White-spectacled Bulbul (or is it?) Black-hooded Coucal Woodlark Ollieblot Tuamotu Kingfisher Marquesan Kingfisher Northern Rockhopper Penguin (Blotted) Galápagos Penguin Erect-crested Penguin Turkish Umdan-gonderildi Chick Cuban Kite Forest Owlet Grey-breasted Parakeet Green-beaked Red Spotto Fractured Dawn Turtle Dove Nightingale Ou Ua Pou Monarch Fatuhiva Monarch White-throated Flowerpecker Loose-crested Aaooha-ho-ha Black Stilt Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird Black-breasted Puffleg Turquoise-throated Puffleg Colourful Puffleg Dusky Starfrontlet/Glittering Starfrontlet Gorgeted Pufflet Piping Plover Grand Comoro Drongo Cozumel Thrasher Antioquia Brush-finch Starry Owlet-nightjar Indigo-winged Parrot Brown-backed Parrotlet Red-fronted Macaw Blue-eyed Ground-dove Let Them Eat Bird Pink-headed Duck White-headed Duck Baer’s Pochard Daft Duck Bahama Oriole Cozumel Thrasher Bachman’s Warbler Montserrat Oriole Fuerteventura Stonechat Glaucous Macaw Russet-bellied Spinetail Banggai Crow Blue-throated Macaw Blue-eyed Ground-dove Orange-beaked Spotted Bald Emulsion Cootflake Blue Orange-beak Pip Leak Ooshut Doorbang Madagascar Red Owl Nicobar Scops-owl Beck’s Petrel Magenta Petrel New Zealand Storm-petrel Fiji Petrel Galápagos Petrel Guadalupe Storm-petrel Jamaica Petrel Mascarene Petrel Laysan Duck Balearic Shearwater Basket Case Unsociable Leftwing Hooded Grebe Pernambuco Pygmy-owl Eskimo Curlew Exploded Red-headed Vulture Medium Tree-finch Mangrove Finch Tired Splatter Finch Rougie Baby Spix’s Macaw All for the Glorious Twelfth House Sparrow Bali Starling Black-winged Starling Philippine Eagle Christmas Island Frigatebird Dwarf Olive Ibis Indian Vulture Liben Lark Raso Lark Tweeter Speckled Black Rainbow Lorikeet

About the Author :
RALPH STEADMAN was born in 1936. He began his career as a cartoonist, and through the years has diversified into many creative fields. Ralph collaborated with Dr Hunter S. Thompson in the birth of 'gonzo' journalism, with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; he has illustrated classics such as Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island and Animal Farm, and written and illustrated his own books, which include Sigmund Freud, I Leonardo and The Big I Am. Steadman is also a printmaker, and has travelled the world's vineyards, culminating in his books The Grapes of Ralph, Untrodden Grapes and Still Life with Bottle. CERI LEVY is a film-maker, who started out making music videos before moving into the world of documentaries. His works include Bananaz, a film about the inner machinations of the group Gorillaz, and the forthcoming The Bird Effect; as co-curator of the exhibition that started Ralph Steadman painting birds, Ceri is a crucial cog in the boids' creation myth.

Review :
Steadman's colourful, spiky illustrations of critically endangered birds ... a dazzling aviary of 'nearly extinct' boids. Save them all and make the ink-spattered Steadboid vert happy. Hatched from the minds of gonzo cartoonist Ralph Steadman and writer-filmmaker Ceri Levy, “Nextinction” is a visual plea for conservation efforts, depicting nearly 200 birds facing an irrevocable fate: extinction. Levy’s humorous but educational text accompanies a spectacle of colorful plumage rendered with Steadman’s unique illustrative style, right down to those trademark ink blotches. Steadman has a talent for birds, and his scratchy, ink-splattered style works wonders with beaks and feathers. The text is informative and wildly eccentric by turns. Nextinction is something of a rarity: a truly original take on popular science. Love them or hate them, Ralph Steadman's vivid cartoons bring out the character of these endangered birds in a way that photography and other illustrations can't match.