Tomorrow marks the centenary of the death of the world's last passenger
pigeon, once North America's most numerous bird. A suitable short essay
on its extinction can be found at
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/fate_of_the_passenger_pigeon_looms_as_a_somber_warning/2797/
  by Joel Greenberg, author this year of "A Feathered River Across the
Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction," a stirring chronicle
of this amazing bird's history, in which the villains are, lamentably,
of our species, and our ignorance, greed, and insouciance. This still
plays out: see some scary warnings at
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140827-seabird-puffin-tern-iceland-ocean-climate-change-science-winged-warning/
.
Good birding,
Bill Whan
Columbus

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