Re: Extinction
[QUOTE=Hanfonius;904967]When I was a lad, the summer skies were darkened by giant flocks of peewits, also known as lapwings.
Now there are none.
The same with starlings, yellowhammers, goldfinches, long-tailed tits, wrens, kingfishers, and many more.
I would fall asleep at night listening to the mournful sounds of the curlew, or the booming calls of the bittern. We had owls nesting in the poplar trees of our garden.
They have all gone. The tapping of the woodpeckers, the sound of the cuckoo -
they are only in my memory.[/QUOTE]
It is very sad, but at least your memory hasn't gone with them, Hans.