America's Lost Birds | The Extinct Bird Species of North America

Imagine an America teeming with native parrots, flocks of pigeons so large that they literally darkened out the sky, and ferocious apex predators capable of mauling a human to death before he even knew he was being stalked ... This description might sound nothing like modern day America, with its concrete jungles and urban sprawl, but if you were lucky enough to have lived in pre-colonial North America, then what I just described would be your reality. But since we don't live in pre-colonial America, I decided to make a list of America's lost birds, the bird species of North America that humans have driven extinct.
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