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Of all the animals that man has caused to become extinct, the story of the passenger pigeon makes me saddest.

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From Wikipedia:

The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) or wild pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common bird in North America. It lived in enormous flocks. During migration, flocks could be 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and 300 miles (500 km) long, taking several hours to pass and containing up to two billion birds.^[1][2]

Some estimate that there were three billion to five billion passenger pigeons in the United States when Europeans arrived in North America.^[3] Others argue that the species had not been common in the Pre-Columbian period, but their numbers grew when devastation of the American Indianpopulation by European diseases led to reduced competition for food.^[4]

During the 19th century, the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world to extinction.^[5] At the time, passenger pigeons had one of the largest groups or flocks of any animal, second only to the Rocky Mountain locust.

So, what this article doesn’t tell me is how to make the current species of pigeons extinct. NOT HELPFUL, wikipedia.

Even in the face of clear evidence of all we’ve done to help your kind, pigeon-hatred is still rampant and accepted the world over.

Sometimes…. sometimes I wish the dart had been a few millimeters over and I could have felt the sweet release of death….

sigh

In times like these the only thing that can lift my spirits is a song….

“We shall overcome…. we shall overcome….. we shall overcome SOOOOOOMEDAA—”

Hey, is that a kid eating french fries at a picnic table? OH, and his parents drive a Beamer? Awesome.

BRB.