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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer. Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then.