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"Wouldn't that pinky-brown be a lovely colour to paint your walls?"
A question put to me by a visitor as we admired these beautiful Passenger Pigeons at The Horniman Museum.
These beautiful birds are now extinct but used to account for forty percent of the North American bird population. Apparently a flock, which usually contained around two billion birds, could sound like thunder. Imagine being there as they flew past?
The last passenger pigeon was said to have been shot in 1900.
How do they know that?
And how on earth do flocks comprising of billions of birds disappear from our planet?
Nevertheless we can still admire them at The Horniman Museum. Inspiration for saving endangered species or perhaps for choosing the paint colour for our walls.
