Quoted: “It?s a very sad anniversary,” noted Stanley Temple, Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He realizes that his observation is a massive understatement. As a sought-after, anniversary-year voice for a species that no longer has a voice, Temple has read the historic accounts of flocks of a billion birds or more by first-hand reporters ranging from average hunters to some of the most famous naturalists ever to roam the continent.
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