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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

Women gathered their long skirts and hurried for the shelter of stores. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest. Children screamed and ran for home. Horses bolted. … Day was turned to dusk. The thunder of wings made shouting necessary for human communication” (p.54).

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