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American Birds Facing Extinction

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 30, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 21.

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American Birds Facing Extinction

Mr. W. T. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoölogical Park, declares that the following American birds are extinct: great auk, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew, Carolina parrakeet, and flamingo. There are fourteen others on the way to extinction, among which are the trumpeter swan, whooping American and snowy egrets, wood-duck, golden plover, rosette spoonbill, and the red-breasted and bartramian sandpipers. The causes are the hunters of game and the curse of fashions.