Alexander Wilson, the other great bird observer of the time, - TopicsExpress



          

Alexander Wilson, the other great bird observer of the time, reckoned that a flock he saw contained 2,230,272,000 individuals. To get your head around just how many passenger pigeons that would mean, consider that there are only about two hundred and sixty million rock pigeons in the world today. You would have to imagine more than eight times the total world population of rock pigeons, all flying at the same time in a connected mass. If the birds had been carried off in a mass avian rapture, or a pigeon-specific flu, you might let them pass without guilt, but if they had been hunted to death by humans you might feel honor-bound to genetically engineer them back to life. newyorker/arts/critics/books/2014/01/06/140106crbo_books_rosen?currentPage=all
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:43:59 +0000

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