From Billions To None: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2020
- Naturalist and author Joel Greenberg, scientists, artists, and teachers reveal the forgotten story of the passenger pigeon extinction and its striking relevance to conservation challenges today.
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it's dis-heartening to myself knowing that a current pop star can sing a silly song and get one billion views in a couple of months, this video explaining the essence of life itself can't muster three thousand views in a year. we're currently witnessing the next great mass extinction, we should work to curtail the event but it really doesn't matter, the earth is only at it's half-life, this planet will start a new and again wild and wonderful creatures will abound. Thanks for this wonderful film.
You've worded that so well 🙂
It's tragic the loss, made worse by the fact that..as you say, pop stars are somehow more wanted thqn this beautiful but very sad film.
Blessings to you
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Curtail the event... why?
Very sad that they went extinct imagine seeing a flock that big would be simply majestic
Multiply that majestic by a thousand and then you really get the idea.
In 1961 or '62 Life Magazine had a long article called "The Passing of the Passenger Pigeon." It moved me in ways no other article I've ever read has moved me and I've never forgotten it. Most of the slaughter was between 1870-1900 when people began to raid the nests. Billions of barrels of squabs (babies) were being shipped to the east to fill the bellies of the rich in the big cities. By 1900 the critical mass has been exceeded and the species was doomed. Sadly we're doing the same thing today; soon will we be next?
The birds of North-America are truely fascinating.
Sadly, we no longer have that species today.
Birds are my favorite animals, God made each animal with a purpose in life, this is so sad to know about the passenger pigeon, thanks for your video. ❤
I’m a Scandinavian. This story should be known by all.
I like to think of this as the “ecological” Titanic sinking
An excellent documentary - thanks for posting Tbe Bryan Museum.
By any measure, the loss of the PP has to rank among the most shameful and tragic anthropogenic extinctions. It robbed future generations of an incredible wildlife spectacle unparalleled anywhere across the globe. We can only imagine the breathtaking spectacle that was lost.
For anyone looking to read more (have a box of tissues to hand) i would recommend Joel Greenberg’s book ‘A Feathered River Across The Sky’
Thank you so much for this documentary❤️
3:50 Historical record.
Honestly, I would love to see a flock the size of a storm cloud (if the species gets brought back from extinction)
Where can I find the soundtrack for this documentary? I love the music
Sorry for the 2 year delay. Garth Stevenson Flying
Can't believe that they got wiped out.
We can bring them back
I wanna believe u.
Should we ?. Every action has a re action ?
Of course we should bring them back. When man is at fault for a terrible unjustice, those of us with compassion must do everything possible to correct it.
There are so many lessons to be learned from this, sadly, we are attuned to being reactive instead of proactive.Why does it always take a tragedy to learn? I think in some cases, we are not immediately aware of what harm may come from what we do, but for those things we are aware of and do nothing, that is the true tragedy of it all.
Very good content ✌🏼✌🏼
My Great Grand Father as told to me by my grandfather use to kill them in Southern Michigan with a 30 foot wooden pole. They would provide a base for the pole in the ground and simply move the pole back and forth knocking them out of the air as the Pigeons passed overhead.
There apparently have been some unconfirmed sightings of passenger pigeons after they were said to have gone extinct, in the 20s two hunters saw one in Wisconsin and one of the hunters said he recognized it since he used to see them in the millions as a child, it was probably a mourning dove but anything is possible
I'm afraid that it's already too late because of the attitude of modern society. I see it every day in my area. The constant chipping away of natural habitat with more and more urbanization springing up in every corner of the country is the biggest challenge to face us presently. If we don't control over development, we could lose so many other species of not only animals, but trees and plants as well. We are the scourge of our planet! One group of our society which I am a part of, has ironically helped to contribute to the preservation of habitat, and those people are hunters. The funds collected each year from licenses, special taxes on guns and ammo, and other contributions, have very effectively made it possible for huge tracts of land to be set aside from development, and conserved for the benefit of not only game animals such as deer, ducks, and small game, but also for non-game species such as songbirds, woodpeckers, raptors such as hawks and owls, to other creatures like reptiles, insects, amphibians, and not to mention trees and vegetation such as wild grasses and wild flowers. Much would have already been lost if not for sportsman's dollars.
From 12:20 to 13:39
Does anyone know then name of the music that plays during this?
I've been searching for about a year and can't find it, nor the soundtrack for this documentary
Garth Stevenson - Name of the album is Flying
Thanks for this. I tried to get it here to Australia but our DVD players were not compatible.
This is so cool to finally see this. I tried to buy this when it first came out. Thanks people. Cheers
I skipped around video. sorry if this is repeat. I read somewhere that well before 1910 when it looked dire. in 1890s When there were still isolated groups of wild flocks, people were working to save and protect them. I think one suggested the reproduction appeared to suffer. Some animals suffer from crowding. Could it be these birds suffered when not crowded? I think its extinction astounds non birding people also because so many other game birds survived this period of indiscriminate hunting. bobwhite, mourning doves, ruffed grouse, ducks, egrets, etc.
This is the species I'd like to be brought back. Sometime in the future, technology will bring the bird back.
Just to see the white oaks dominate the woods again would be make the effort worthwhile. I'll be long dead,
but it'll be restored.
Send progress of deextinctipn and fish cards !!! Any and pigeon info is appreciated !!!
13:03 ;-;
i read years a go that thay ware breed with pet pigeons
we seemed to have learnd nothing when the fish go, the oxygen will go when the forests burn we burn
Interesting and sorrowful...could have been significantly shorter and no less poignant by keeping out of the video all of the classroom footage and the "we are doing this to the oceans too"...it is not profound to the viewer to see good stir up emotions in young school children, they ALL get it, the past is a great teacher and extinction teaches that gross excess and blind/willful disrespect of life ruins the future...
With have that like of beard
Basically what Europeans did was to consume and transmute the protein stores of pre-Columbian America.
IAM 100% sure as a racing pigeons owner,that the passenger pigeon still alive.i saw a couple of them a month ago.
Sadly we're already too late to stop the anthropogenic 6th mass extinction
"It's just a stupid bird" and you're just a stupid human! Protect wildlife and yhe earth we live on.
Well, you guys aren't very nice, why would you kill all them animals? Cause I know when you say "we" and "us" you must be talking about you and your buddies or you have a mouse in your pocket, because I didn't have schitt to do with any of that, don't make me feel guilty, you don't know my life
FYI, people really shouldn't be playing God, mark my words
We played God already by exterminating them though
God gave us the ability to create technology so we can fix some things prior generations gave no thought too.
@@bigbowlowrong4694 no body raises questions about that