Full title: At their peak, 3–5 billion passenger pigeons filled North America. Flocks were so huge they darkened the sky for hours. Some shooting contests required 30,000 dead birds to win. By 1914, the last one was gone. One of history’s most brutal population collapses.

Yeah, WTF, I was looking for a link somewhere. this is no better than Facebook slop. In some sense it’s worse, because at least on FB you know you’re getting slop.