10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
Sorry for banging on about black-footed ferrets, but here’s a bit on why this trip was so special to me: Forty years ago the black-footed ferret was a bit more like the Loch Ness Monster than it is today. The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Or the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Because if it doesn’t there are no second chances (Black-footed Ferret aside.). A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. Extinction is what befalls the species that fails to adapt, to survive, to thrive. Most species go extinct. Or Bachman’s Warbler.
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