100 yrs ago, Martha died....

[46er]

and a species was gone forever. What a sight they must have been...........

http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2014/07/extinction-passenger-pigeons-in-the-adirondacks.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/o...m_term=0_47588b5758-a2816d4773-304496121&_r=1

 

[MarkBNJ]

Sad story. Whenever I read something like this I always harbor this little hope that somewhere there are still living specimens. How do they actually go about saying that there are_none_ of an animal like this? Is it based on time since the last sighting?

 

[46er]

I have read some accounts of folks claiming to have seen one up in the adirondacks, but it never seems to prove out. There was mass hysteria a few years back for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker 'sightings'. Nothing ever came of that either. But you never know, i.e. the Coelacanth. A bit hard to comprehend the disappearance of 5 billion of anything, except perhaps our tax dollars.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...5/05/when_do_they_call_an_animal_extinct.html

 

[MarkBNJ]

I have read some accounts of folks claiming to have seen one up in the adirondacks, but it never seems to prove out. There was mass hysteria a few years back for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker 'sightings'. Nothing ever came of that either. But you never know, i.e. the Coelacanth. A bit hard to comprehend the disappearance of 5 billion of anything, except perhaps our tax dollars.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...5/05/when_do_they_call_an_animal_extinct.html

Interesting article. About what I figured.

 

[46er]

Interesting article. About what I figured.

There is a program making the rounds of PBS, but is not listed for NJ yet.

http://www.billionstonone.com/8-public.html

Also someone that thinks he can bring back the Passenger Pigeon using DNA. Weird science.
The second video in this link.

http://www.billionstonone.com/7-revived.html

 

[MarkBNJ]

There is a program making the rounds of PBS, but is not listed for NJ yet.

http://www.billionstonone.com/8-public.html

Also someone that thinks he can bring back the Passenger Pigeon using DNA. Weird science.
The second video in this link.

http://www.billionstonone.com/7-revived.html

There's going to be more of that in the future, I think.