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The Last Few Rays Before Extinction

10,000 Birds

She’s contemplated California Condors here before, but Passenger Pigeons seem to resonate most with her. Hodge, of Worchester, Massachusetts, claimed in the fall of 1905 he was working in his garden when he looked up “and saw a flock of about thirty wild pigeons winging their way southward.” Naturalist C.F.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

And, in contrast to all the blog posts that were expanded into essays, Jenn Dean’s “The Keepers of the Ghost Bird,” the story of the fight to save the Bermuda Petrel, the cahow, was originally published as an e-book by The Massachusetts Review (in which format it won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay Award).