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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2013
Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a Rock Pigeon perched on top of the elephants in the Hall of African Mammals, safely out of the elements and unexposed to Central Park’s hawks. But in the end, being dead doesn’t protect an animal from mortality.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. Good, I say. Then the 80s happened.
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