Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of Eastern and Central North America to learn about those birds that I might've witnessed had I been alive only a century ago!

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Sources / Further Reading:

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/cl...

https://www.stargazette.com/story/new...

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https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/...
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

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https://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/...

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https://www.ducks.org/conservation/wa...

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https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2...

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