Hey, What About the Great Auk?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer. And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle.
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