Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pag00 From: pag00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Pria Graves) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Goodbye to Dusky Seaside Sparrow Message-ID: <22788@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 19 Feb 88 20:37:47 GMT References: Reply-To: pag00@amdahl.amdahl.com (Pria Graves) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 22 In article jr+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Rosenberg) writes: >References: <1155@inuxd.UUCP>, > <20965@bbn.COM> > >I just received a report from "Defenders of Wildlife", a Washington, DC based >group, that the dusky seaside sparrow is now extinct. The last known d. s. >sparrow died on June 16, 1987 at Walt Disney World. I know that species >disappear all the time & maybe some people consider it commonplace. But I, >for one, feel extremely saddened by the extinction of a species & will never >consider it "commonplace". > >Well, I'll avoid ranting and raving here, that isn't the purpose of this >group. But, it seemed like an appropriate place to mention the incident & say >goodbye forever to the dusky seaside sparrow... I have marked my office copy of Birds of N.A. in their memory. -- Pria ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amdcad,nsc}!amdahl!pag00 (408) 746 7539 (Disclaimer: even I don't necessarily agree!)