Sad anniversary -- video of what was lost

Gone because we didn't pay attention

September 1, 2014 at 2:34PM

One hundred years ago today the last Passenger Pigeon died on the bottom of her zoo cage, the billions of her kind that once flew here gone years and decades before. Here is a short animation of what a flock of pigeons might have looked like 160 or 170 years ago. It was posted to BirdChat by Barry K. McKay.

http://vimeo.com/92192308

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