This is a story of a scarcely credible abundance, of flocks of
birds so vast they made the sky invisible. It is also a story,
almost as difficult to credit, of a collapse into extinction so
startling to the inhabitants of the New World as to provoke a
mystery. In the fate of the North American passenger pigeon we can
read much of the story of wild America - the astonishment that
accompanied its discovery, the allure of its natural 'productions',
the ruthless exploitation of its 'commodities' and the ultimate
betrayal of its peculiar genius. And in the bird's fate can be
read, too, the essential vulnerability of species, the
unpredictable passage of life itself.
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