A narrative about the rapid decline and extinction of the passenger pigeon. It is fiction based on fact and told from the perspective of two individual birds. The concept is original, daring, and it holds your interest. Considering the pigeons declined in population from multiple billions to one individual within a single human lifetime, the story is necessarily sad; a steady drumbeat of death coming from the many dangers the species faced.

One of the most depressing books I've ever read, and an important one as we descend into a period of mass extinction. ( )

A biography of a passenger pigeon, that tells the story of the extintion of the breed. Told from the point of view of the pigeon ( )