What’s all the yellowing about? American Goldfinches are changing colors.
This is a cautionary tale.
They shut out the sunshine. One flock was purported to be 1 mile wide and 200 miles long. A flock could take three days to pass.
The Passenger Pigeon is extinct.
An estimated 136 million Passenger Pigeons nested over 850 square miles in Central Wisconsin in 1871. The last one shot in Wisconsin was in 1899. The last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, died in 1914.