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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. Turns out, from what I could find, not particularly ceremonious. Well, it would have been in 1944… or 1952 or somewhere in between. In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer.