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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

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. we are hosting Extinction Week here on 10,000 Birds from 7 September to 13 September.