Going back hundreds of years to find injustice done to birds? They could have looked to the USA in the late 1890s and early 1900s to see entire bird species almost wiped out by plumage hunters on Southern Atlantic coast and Florida.
They could have looked to the USA in the late 1890s and early 1900s to see entire bird species almost wiped out by plumage hunters on Southern Atlantic coast and Florida.
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Passenger pigeon and Great Auk come to mind