The Birds I Never Met | North America's Extinct Birds

[@maddoxgreene7419]

“The fish and wildlife service removed species from the endangered species list” Yay :D “They’re now extinct” Oh :(

[@prowsergaming9627]

I did the exact same thing :(

[@futuregmchess1561]

Same D:

[@metalandmoney5535]

Same

[@funnygrunt_o7]

D:

[@idraote]

yep, me too... :(

[@benjaminoverton7702]

Ignore the haters. The conservation of all animals is very important, and you are helping to inspire others by making the videos that you do. Keep up the great work!

[@MrBattlecharge]

Those people who were shown making those comments are the same people saying "who cares about the people in Syria" and "who cares if cities in China are shrouded in smog every day".

[@Chord_]

Right?! Like, those anti-conservation viewpoints at the end, that's such a self-centered and short-sighted way to look at things.

[@iivin4233]

@@Chord_ I do think there is an element of truth in those statements. Since we have more control and knowledge now we should take control of our biosphere now. We should do that rather than trying to crucify dead people. Of course some dead people did deserve to be crucified but there's always three dudes on Calvary Hill: the criminal, the sorry criminal and the innocent. Either way the executions (extinctions) are done. We should have acted yesterday but we can't so we have to act today.

[@pugdad2555]

@@iivin4233 the problem is that the very same companies that have cause these extinctions are still rolling at twice the speed now because (per theor thinking) if a Democrat won the vvhite house in 2016, they were afraid of new environmental laws but since Trump won, they made sure to push twice as hard to build new sites and to remove environmental laws to prevent the next President from overhauling our environmental policies and then blaming said president for any energy issues that arises.

[@gauritaklikar1805]

@benjamin Overton everything but mosquitoes

[@sewisinc.4545]

I have known about the Passenger pigeon for ages now and I can't wrap my head around the fact that it went from billions of individuals to down right extinct within a century or two.

[@braincell4536]

Humanity

[@sewisinc.4545]

@@braincell4536 yeah, I get that but I can't picture in my head the humongous flocks of birds let alone the sheer and massive number of hunting actions needed and taken to bring that species from absurd populations to extinct. It's just bizarre.

[@braincell4536]

@@sewisinc.4545 Well its a combination really, Humanity is the top reason why. The pigeons relied on their acorns and thus oak trees, Humans need wood, food and of course space. Cut trees, hunt pigeons and viola you get a 3 tiered domino effect

[@braincell4536]

@@sewisinc.4545 In my time playing strategy games, we lose something for something else

[@Doping1234]

Quammen argued in the song of the Dodo that even if there was a stupendous number of passenger pidgeons they might have already been 'rare' because they might have needed social stimulation to lay their eggs or millions of birds to find the scattered concentrations of food or some other reason. From then on some unfortunate coincidences make a population unviable.

[@blackcatatelier6962]

Anyone who thinks some animals going extinct is not that important clearly has little understanding of ecology. keep up the good work and congratulations for how the channel is growing hope you reach more people with every video.

[@kevenmatildo250]

Your right

[@SiamHossain7]

Not only that they have little understanding, even if they did, they wouldn't care. Bloody sociopaths the lot of them

[@pugdad2555]

@@SiamHossain7 that is what happens when evil people kill all the good people but they themselves aren't killed in return. Thus the evil people can procreate and send their messed up mental health disease to the rest of the population. Boom!!! Here we are.

[@psychlops924]

One thing I feel the need to point out is that as one commenter said, extinction is the norm in nature. The fragile balance of ecosystems are constantly being upended and thrown into chaos as new species enter an area. All of the animals living today were at one point a form of invasive species, and many species that lived there before their arrival went extinct because of them. This whole idea that there’s some perfect ecological balance, if only humans weren’t around, is not only morally abhorrent, it’s also historically ignorant.

[@flagwashere]

@@psychlops924 extinction is the norm BUT its now moving at 1000 TIMES the background norm.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Thank you very much for the opportunity this was a pleasure to do and I love how you edited it together. Enjoying the video so far, and learning some things I never knew. Awesome work! ~Lesley

[@TopRanky]

Atlas Pro is the GOAT for geography and biology on YT

[@GreenPoint_one]

🦚 I prefer green birds like the kakapo ;3

[@GreenPoint_one]

@Dovyeon yes I like plants :3

[@christinebuckingham8369]

Thanks for sending us to this great channel Lesley! 👍💖

[@Annihilator27]

Omg she’s here

[@ajrobbins368]

The people who insist that mass extinctions driven by humans is "business as usual" are ignoring our limited understanding of ecological consequences. Basically, we cannot account for all the side effects of a species absence, even after the fact.

[@ajrobbins368]

@Safwaan Allow me to briefly elaborate on your point. 2°C sounds small, but the global average temperature affects every part of the planet. The "earth systems" of atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere are fundamentally interdependent on one another. Change produces a ripple effect across all of these spheres, and humanity continues to make change on a global scale. Don't get me wrong. Overall, exploiting fossil fuels have improved the human condition. Hooray! Future consequences are the issue. We have the data and tools to not only track global climate trends, but also to model these trends into the future. And we have the technology to allow investment in lasting alternatives to nonrenewable energy. There's nothing left to do but transition civilization to carbon neutrality. At the end of the day, no one knows how many years that will actually take.

[@idraote]

You are perfectly right, but I am still willing to run the risk for mosquitoes (the biting species), sandflies, horseflies, ticks, bedbugs, lice, body lice and some other bugs it would be too long too mention.

[@MrCrunch808]

@@ajrobbins368 we gave up long term survival and even are risking extinction over the next few thousand years for just a 100 years of abundance, that was filled with exploitation and oppression for most people on the planet. The plenty we got from fossil fuels was just plenty for an evil few and toil for everyone else.

[@ajrobbins368]

@@MrCrunch808 I used to think the same thing. Studying economics at university has changed my mind. The wealthy aren't hoarding resources such as oil, timber, food, or land. Their wealth is invested in companies that provide employment, products, & services, plus bonds that allow others to invest in business/government projects. Otherwise they lose purchasing power to inflation, not to mention many are wealthy expressly because of their business ventures. The real issue is that 1% of 1% of humanity make all of these decisions for the rest of us, with limited accountability.

[@elias_xp95]

The Earth has been warmer than current, and colder than current. Species have gone extinct with humans, species have gone extinct without humans. It is human hubris to centralise everything upon human existence. We are meaningless to the Earth system.

[@inceldestroyer1069]

When I was a kid in the 2000s I'd always see bats during the summer by my town in PA on the Susquehanna river. I havent seen a bat in years and randomly wondered the other day, sure enough they are now endangered due to a fungus giving them white nose disease.

[@Lucas_Antar]

Too bad they can’t make a vaccine but then again all the Pennsyltucky bats wouldn’t take it😂

[@Echowhiskeyone]

Back in the 1980s, Harrisburg region, at dusk there used to me very dense flocks(?) of bats, blotted out the twilight sky. Now, I am joyed to find one has made it into my attic. Though, I have not seen many in the last decade, less than a few. Very sad.

[@cat21860]

I’m in the UP of Michigan and just this august I saw a bat for the first time in nearly a decade.

[@inceldestroyer1069]

@@Lucas_Antar 80 percent of PA has at least one shot of the vaccine, with 61% being fully vaxxed. There are many backwards parts of PA, but I dont really think the whole "all of rural pa is antivax" holds up.

[@brandon9172]

Im in washington and I still see bats everynight. Hopefully it remains that way.

[@veggieboyultimate]

While all the birds you mentioned were truly a significant loss, the passenger pigeon was what stuck out the most. To think there was a bird that abundant in my area, Connecticut, left me feeling left out in seeing such spectacular animals.

[@timmccarthy872]

I think about that a lot myself. At least I'm thankful that the bison lived, and instead of seeing their taxidermied corpses in a museum, we can go to the great plains and see them, and hear and smell them, for ourselves. What a loss they nearly were!

[@Tokru86]

Spectacular animals? Those giant flocks would certainly be a apectacular sight, but I doubt people would see those birds in such a romantic way if they were still alive. They probably would, in some form or another, be looked down on as just another kind of pest. Like normal pidgeons all around the world. There is a reason why they are often called "flying rats".

[@charlottewalnut3118]

@@Tokru86 They may be called passenger pigeon but they look more close to doves remember pigeons to us or a very specific animal that only lives in cities and towns around humans passenger pigeons are a type of Dove that live in forests mostly old growth. And secondarily you’re going to start waxing poetic if you see a swarm of animals so large that it makes the sun go out for a day

[@rdwind7734]

@@Tokru86 Most people ignore the beauty of the world, but it doesn't mean that there wouldn't be some people who appreciate it.

[@punkyagogo]

@@charlottewalnut3118 I mean, rock doves (city pigeons) are also doves, but I agree. Also, the idea of pigeons being a dirty nuisance is very recent. It was the NYC Department of Health that declared them “rats with wings”, despite there being no cases of actual serious disease transmission from pigeons to human to date. Even their guano was once actively sought after for making some of the best fertilizer. First and foremost, in the days of the passenger pigeon, they were seen as an excellent food source and later on, very helpful animals when it came to the war effort. The idea of them being useless pests is fairly novel by comparison.

[@Akislav1990]

This one, is probably your most heavy hitting video you've made so far. You've outdone yourself again and again.

[@waynepooley6950]

Damn... booming ben kinda made me shed a tear. imagine calling out to your species not knowing they're all gone

[@MillyKKitty]

I recommend searching and listening to the last call of the Kaua'i 'o'o bird. When it stops, it expects its mate to fill in but it never gets a response :(

[@astrobonk]

@@MillyKKittythat clip brought me to tears. Man, nature can be cruel sometimes.

[@richardrich7385]

As an ornithologist and ecologist from Elmira, NY, I always love hearing more about the Labrador duck. Another reason it might have flown so far inland was to find a mate, when species are so rare they go to great lengths to find them. There's a statue of the bird in the park downtown where the sighting took place, and nobody talks about it. But Binghamton's not far, so if you ever feel like making a pilgrimage, come see it!

[@richardrich7385]

You might also want to look into the Bachman's warbler, which is also quite likely extinct. Not native to New York, but native to the Midwest and east coast, so there's a chance you could have run into it!

[@eastpavilion-er6081]

@@richardrich7385 Unfortunately, in 2:32, you can clearly see Bachman's warbler on the extinction list. Another bird that he will never see.

[@eternalelipsis]

I'm surprised to be learning about birds from NYS!!! Can't say I'm not excited (even though I'm late to the party), but nobody ever talks about the state

[@martinkois7126]

That last section reminded me of the mantra I teach my environmental science students: Threats to Biodiversity are Threats to Humanity.

[@AtlasPro1]

This is maybe the hardest but also the most important lesson from environmentalism. At the end of the day, we're trying to save ourselves

[@WanderTheNomad]

I hope one day, most people will understand that helping others(whether they're people or other species) will also help ourselves. But people have trouble seeing the connections between distant things.

[@Kevn_DJ]

@@AtlasPro1 Very important and educational video. I’m just getting to it because the title and subject is not as grabbing as some previous videos. I could never do what you do and I love this channel and video . Just giving you a heads up on why this may get less views than some of your other videos. I think feedback is important so this is just a casual viewer/ non-patreon perspective.

[@yodorob]

Threats to biodiversity and wildlife are indeed not only threats to those species themselves and their habitats, but also to us humanity. And not just in the ecosystem services (such as flood control and pest control) that are lost when those species are gone...very importantly, also in preventing pandemics of new, exotic, emerging viruses such as the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In my opinion (but that's just my opinion), FAR FAR more important than so-called "climate change", as man-made greenhouse gases are just one of a myriad of factors behind climate variability and not even the leading one by any means.

[@isaiahliepold3281]

It’s crazy because I was just talking about the Adsense of bats compared to childhood memories here in Indiana, here’s to another rabbit hole to now research, although I suspect it’s the same reason

[@velocirapper8862]

Love this channel and the great effort you put into it. The island biogeography series didnt get the views it deserved. Especially the 3rd video which makes me really sad because that one was the best. Love your content always.

[@gauritaklikar1805]

It has been 1 hour with 5.7k views

[@davidt8087]

sorry

[@EKIANandWolvesGaming]

Have you seen Biblaridion's alien biosphere series? I highly recommend it if you enjoyed the island video it goes over similar stuff but with the evolution of fictional alien animals

[@wpwscience4027]

Yet

[@velocirapper8862]

@@EKIANandWolvesGaming that sounds awesome, thanks for the suggestion

[@ItzRetz]

I did some research of my own like you suggested and found out that Australia used to have FOUR species of Emu, not just the one we have now. The Dwarf Emu, the Tasmanian Emu, and the Black Emu. All three of them went extinct due to 'hunting and human started bush fires'. I never knew this. We aren't taught this stuff in school. That's so sad. Maybe the Emu War would've gone differently if all four species were still around when it happened. Now I know why the Emu won that war, because they were looking for revenge, and rightfully so.

[@Tokru86]

Why is i sad? Would your live be any different if those 3 extra emu species were still around? I bet It wouldn't. Is Australia somehow different without them? No. It's just the sentimental value you for whatever reason attribute to them. There probably were some more Emu species once in time that went extinct and nobody knows about them. Nobody feels sad for them. Why?

[@Skyypixelgamer]

@@Tokru86 oh come on man just let this man feel bad for an animal going extinct good lord. Plus who says he wasn’t sad about those other emus?

[@charlottewalnut3118]

Yeah I wish all the crazy crap from Australia was back Megalania, Quinkana, and the marsupial megafauna

[@Ellie_deMayo]

@@Tokru86 Wow. Same energy as “Let’s have rabbits in Australia! What could possibly go wrong?”

[@gammafox5431]

@@Tokru86 Literally just watch the last segment of this video, there are pretty much always effects that follow extinctions of species. Some may be less significant than others, but no one truly has any idea of the scale of what could go wrong when a species effectively disappears off the face of the earth.

[@cllax14]

I remember camping with my dad and my dad telling me how passenger pigeons used to darken the sky when flocks of them would fly overhead. That was the first time my child brain grasped the idea of extinction and I remember feeling such a somber wave of emotion as I realized that humans completely wiped out animals that once numbered in the millions. I still feel sad to this day that I will never see old growth trees thousands of years old from horizon to horizon, hear bison rutting so loud that you can’t sleep like Lewis & Clark wrote about, and seeing troves of passenger pigeons darken the sky above. The next great extinction event of the world is happening now and we are the cause of it.

[@domino_201]

it really does suck. but hopefully people will realize the error of their ways and make changes to stop it.

[@komododragon6061]

@@domino_201 , I really hope we do, and that future generations will do the same too.

[@WanderTheNomad]

*billions According to the video

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@domino_201 people generally don't really have a good memory on these things. Not unless they have a specific interest in it. Otherwise, things that happened more than 500 years ago(or even way less than that) are completely gone from memory.

[@Souledex]

@@domino_201 "error of their ways" lol, literally every aspect of your entire life is an abberation that we don't yet realize the effects of yet. Most everything we consume, especially any with industrial processing we don't know its effects. To predict which solutions we have to some of our problems will have unintended consequences is what humans have always tried to do, just with capitalism and empire building we had less responsibility and more protection from those we harmed. A lot more will change before things get better assuming they ever do but hopefully we can continue to learn and catalogue the life of things in our environment now to bring them back if they die. Maybe even the Passenger Pigeon or Carolina parakeet are recent enough to be brought back. That said the error of these ways is literally in existing, existing better and making our lives better. I generally regard more, better, happier sentience as the prime good worthy of weighing but til we have hopefully friendly AI helping us with research and solutions here it'll be messy trying to fix any of them.

[@gaius9240]

It’s so sad to me that people don’t understand the tragedy of human caused extinctions. Thank you so much for approaching the situation with the gravity it deserves keep up the amazing work

[@daniellanctot6548]

11:43 - Or, ducks being animals that most often travel in packs, it may be that, being alone as the last representative of its kind, that duck may have tagged itself to a group of other ducks that are in the habit of traveling more inland as a survival method, even if it possibly could not breed with those other ducks it could still benifit from the security that comes with being part of a group and accepted that necessitated going "off the normal flying path" its kind was accustom too.

[@KrazyKaiser]

"Travel in pack" Jesus that's terrifying.

[@DneilB007]

This is a very possible interpretation of the known data. The idea of wild birds altering their migratory behaviour is very well documented. For instance, in western Canada, many ducks, geese, cranes, and other migratory birds have taken to flying south in the company of Whooping Cranes. The Whooping Crane is a protected species, to the point that the first sighting of a Whooping Crane signals the end of hunting season in a region. As a result, other birds will try to join up with even a solitary Whooping Crane, as it guarantees that they will not have to deal with hunters on their migratory path. It’s not uncommon to see 4-7 Whooping Cranes flocking with dozens to hundreds of birds of different species.

[@KrazyKaiser]

@@DneilB007 whooping crane sounds like an absolutely made up animal lol.

[@Pandacalifornia]

Probably, four times out of five, whenever I get a rare bird alert, the rare bird associating with the most similar species it can find.

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

@@DneilB007 Wow it's like the rest of the birds are using the diplomatic immunity that the whooping crane offers. It's almost like the birds found a legal loophole XD

[@monkeymode7529]

Honestly idk what they’re talking about with you being critical of humans for wiping out species. IMO you’re really good about not being overly critical of humans as some similar channels can be. You’re critical of them as much as you should be but never take it too far

[@lookash3048]

As an European I always think how many species went extinct in Europe before people here at least started describing them in books. I wonder how many species disappeared from Europe and we will never know that they lived on our continent.

[@elpito9326]

Did you know that lions and hyenas used to be common in Europe? And not even that far back

[@duckpotat9818]

All of Eurasian megafauna

[@giovannirodriguesdasilva646]

Europeans have a natural talent for devastation on an industrial scale, wherever Europeans reach the devastation advances strong

[@lookash3048]

@@giovannirodriguesdasilva646 I believe that Europeans aren't over average. Remember that many very massive animals died out around the world before Europeans menaged to come to that part. For example Moa birds in New Zealand or big animals in Australia and on Madagascar. The only difference is that Europeans describe a species in books before they kill it.

[@xochz1327]

@@lookash3048 more like, due to different and complex circumstances we advanced faster and got to kill of animals faster

[@greggougeon4422]

I learned that one of the reasons on top of all the ones listed for the extinction of the passenger pigeon is their breeding habits. It is theorized that they would refuse to mate in small numbers due to fear of predation. So as we decimated populations the smaller flocks went extinct due to lack of mating.

[@crackedemerald4930]

"exctintion is a natural event" So is death, and if you had one happen close to you, it's not good. "Humans are natural" We are, and we can communicate with eachother and coordinate to not doom ourselves in the future

[@valentinaaugustina]

Humans are natural, but we really like to think that we are Society, not Nature. This sort of thinking allows us to feel justified in doing all this awful stuff. You raised some great points!

[@2MeterLP]

Extinction is a natural event, but we really dont need to make it any faster

[@agustincampanelli7706]

Extinction is natural, yes, but we don't need to be the cause of it. We are litterally the only species on earth that can preserve all that conforms it, and we suck at it.

[@Mr.Duckman]

humans taste the same. this one however tastes sour

[@MarsJenkar]

Reminds me of that one Terry Pratchett quote, a rebuff against the idea of things being good because they're "herbal" or "natural": "Belladona [is] an herb, and arsenic [is] natural."

[@michaeljf6472]

"... We're removed from the endangered species list..." YAY! "... and declared extinct." oh...

[@Voicelet]

The more this extincted birds series goes on, the more depressed I feel. Why it eluded humans of those times to realize that preserving the prey population will result in the longevity of what they're doing.

[@zainiikhwan9405]

Probably out of their ignorance and the bird is abundance at that time. Let's learn from history so we won't make the same mistake again.

[@2MeterLP]

It seems that humanity back then lacked an understanding of the finiteness of the earth, fueled by the believe in creationism. "God made these creatures for us to hunt, he will make more."

[@theodayorafaelolubodunboni5527]

@Dovyeon None actually, we humans are able to both destroy and protect as we see fit. Which one we decide to do is what is important.

[@peteblackburn7850]

It eluded humans largely for one singular reason. Communication. Those early settlers didn't have the technology that enables us today, to learn about what's going on in the world today. People back then based their lives, decisions, and habits around their own experiences. Today, people base many of their actions on things they've learned on TV, the internet, or even school. For example, it's easy to keep your car interior clean by simply throwing everything out the window as you drive around. Of course we don't do it because we see the trash left by all the people who have done it, as well as learning about the long term effects via documentaries on TV or the internet. Many were scolded by others for doing it as children by adults who had already seen or learned of it's effects. Giving us an indication early on that it's likely a bad thing to do. Now imagine there were hardly any people around. Imagine there not being the internet, tv, or even radio for that matter. Imagine leaving school after 7th grade in order to be able to contribute more at home. Imagine all the adults around you living the same way. How would you know that throwing trash out your car window was really all that bad? Grass, wind, and weeds would cover up or blow most everything you threw out away. There'd be no TV documentaries or Atlas Pro videos to watch that told you it was bad. How would you know it was wrong? You wouldn't. And if you did, you were in the vast minority of people that were aware, but with almost no tools or tech to inform the population as a whole. It's almost funny to ask "Why it eluded humans of those times to preserve..." on a phone or tablet that's production itself contributes to the destruction of all sorts of things in nature from animals, habitats, rare earth minerals, etc... Humans in the future will ask the same about us. Only they'll have evidence such as posts like yours to show them just how dense we truly were.

[@alejandroochoa559]

@@peteblackburn7850 In any recent story of extinction like the Great Auk and the Heath Hen you see people were well aware. Yet the rarity often led people to want to hunt the birds or poach the eggs more because of scarcity induced inflation in price and increased collector curiosity. Humans knew, they just did not care just as many today continue to not care, because most humans are short sighted and selfish. The main difference nowadays is enforcement not knowledge, and even then it is not enough most of the time. Pangolins, Rhinos, Elephants, Sharks, Dolphins, Whales, and many more animals continue to be poached and hunted for greed, curiosity, and superstition. The worst mistake we can make is to think we are somehow beyond our past mistakes, because as long as we exist we have to actively stop ourselves for it is in our specie's nature and scale to cause these problems.

[@benjaminsteele13]

When people talk about food sources as a reason not to care about extinction, it's relevant to ask what the value is in dismissing the situation. The overhunting example definitely links in well to overfishing concerns driving down stocks of cod and tuna, which will have huge effects on future generations if we lose them. To dismiss extinctions as necessary to preserve a staple food is less something that protects past generations and seems more a way to say not to focus on habitat degradation now.

[@Tokru86]

What effects would losing cod and tuna have? They would be gone as source for food, yes. But then people would just have to find other food sources and will go on as if nothing happened. Humanity as a whole won't be affected in anyway. Specific people who relied on these fish for work will certainly be negatively affected but in the grand scheme of things this will not matter. I'm not saying species should be hunted to extinction, just that it shouldn't be overly dramatizised if it eventually happens. It will not be the end of the world like so many people want you to believe. Life will go on anyway.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

@@Tokru86 pretty fucking sure two major fish species straight up disappearing would have some negative reprocussions on perhaps the entire environment.

[@michaelriverside1139]

@@Tokru86 For you? Yeah that train of thought might work for a few years, but we don't even know what kind of impact would come from two of the most numerous fish species in the world collapsing and how will it impact resources such as food, by that point, your diet may very well consist of Soylent Green...

[@andy-kg5fb]

37 minutes!! Bois the gods are shining on us!

[@crackedemerald4930]

And not on the birds

[@andy-kg5fb]

@@crackedemerald4930 unfortunately

[@AtlasPro1]

too true 😔

[@szinga]

I can't believe people who watch this channel leave such deeply, deeply ignorant comments. thank you for taking your time to educate us and for doing it with much more poise than I could ever muster when faced with the depths of human stupidity.

[@vitaminluke5597]

What's important to remember is that nihilistic, hyper-conservative right-wingers spend TONS of time online brigading videos about anything even adjacent to conservation, science, public health, and justice. So many normal moderate or progressive people are unaware of the legion of terminally online far right individuals who try to stifle content that goes against their toxic worldview. Luckily, Atlas Pro seems to be just small and niche enough to avoid the worst of it for now. But I guarantee if he continues to talk about conservation (as he should!), they will come after him in greater numbers. It's up to us to call them out and show support to AP :)

[@johhnydalton7441]

FOLKS WE NEED TO GET THIS MAN TO 1 MILLION SUBS.. THE EFFORT HE PUTS IN HIS VIDS AND THE AMAZING CONTENT IT PROVIDES DESERVES IT!!! (Caps for drama)

[@foundationsmedicalinformat2420]

You have no idea how happy this video made me. I’m a huge ornithology/birdwatching nerd who lives in the northern US (Michigan) and seeing a breakdown of all of these oft-forgotten species was incredible.

[@napolien1310]

There is a saying in Arabia "Who doesn't know a falcon, grill it" so there was a hunter who used a falcon to hunt and one day his Falcon didn't come back and he start searching for it and found a Camel shepherd and asked him "have you seen a falcon?" The shepherd replied "no but I've seen two birds fighting each other so I shot them both with rocks so I'm starting a fire to grill them" when the hunter saw his Falcons he cried out "you weren't suppose to eat a falcon you hunt with it" the shepherd replied "well it is a bird so you eat it".

[@KrazyKaiser]

That is both hilarious and sad lmao *weep*

[@shafqatishan437]

That's definitely a made up story because Felcon and other birds of prey are not halal to eat.

[@SD-tj5dh]

Its close to a well known Chinese proverb I've heard. "Grill them all. Dead or alive. Fuck nature. Rarer the better"

[@vitaminluke5597]

The shepherd is very much a typical right-winger. Although in this case he ate both wings.

[@napolien1310]

@@shafqatishan437 dude that's the point, you weren't suppose to eat it but the Shepherd said it is a bird so it is fine to eat it, not every muslim is knowledgeable about every aspect of islam, also the story might have been before islam came.

[@josephinebecker7410]

I'm from Elmira and I've never heard this story before. Thanks for enlightening me about my cities history!

[@AtlasPro1]

There's a statue to the Labrador Duck in a park in Elmira, try to find it!

[@elijazfrazelsassafraz3100]

You are one of my favorite informative youtubers. I often find myself looking up your channel so I can find something to watch even if I've seen it before. You have an impeccable quality and you always seem to pick topics which interest me. THANK YOU!

[@kedarpatil7095]

I had no idea this was 37 mins until after the video ended. Your narration skills are very good, hope it accounts for a bigger effort towards preservation of these species all over the world.

[@zxbigmikexz]

Living in SC for a while as a kid, we were taught the 'Carolina Parrot' went extinct due to farmers - that they believed the birds were decimating their crops...

[@ernestoporcari3367]

NYS museum in Albany has a great current exhibit on almost all of these birds right now, highly recommend

[@HistoryScienceTheater]

I love all the old-timey footage you use, it really gives a feeling of being in the past even when the period of time you're going for is way longer ago than the invention of the camera. (its like, yeah this is that 1760's tv nature documentaries must have been like, right?) where do you get the footage from?

[@CodenameUtopian]

The last segment of this video was a little disturbing. I'm so sorry to hear about your Lyme Disease. As a person who suffers from extreme joint pain, I sympathize greatly. But the amount of people who don't seem to care about the preservation of life on this planet is just... gross

[@Tokru86]

The thing is, life does'nt want to be preserved aka. stagnate. It want's to adapt and change. Humans have no capability to end life on earth itself anyway. Only a cosmic event might have the power to end life on earth. Humans certainly don't. We are able to drive specific species to extinction, including our own. That's all. But specific species don't matter for life as a whole.

[@rolandsquire6555]

@@Tokru86 wow, missing the point by that much is honestly impressive

[@hylacinerea970]

little tidbit for everyone here: the reason the forests of the east are so poor today is when colonizers arrived, they cut every last tree down. where i live, there should be wild onions everywhere in the forest. there’s only one small patch, in one place, that’s as wide as a hoola hoop.

[@robkeehner2204]

95% of North Carolina's coastal and peidmont trees were clearcut.

[@abbycaldwell3166]

It was really cool that you mentioned Audubon and his artwork and research on these birds. I picked up a print of Audubon's Blue Jay piece from an antique store a couple months back and it was really cool to recognize the artist and learn a bit about him.

[@willywestsidee]

Are you going to cover extinct birds from other continents?

[@AtlasPro1]

Only if this video does well 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@MuertaRara]

Please!!!

[@willywestsidee]

@@AtlasPro1 Well either way, good video!

[@lmatt88]

@@AtlasPro1 Do South America please!

[@Nemo_Anom]

The people that go on and on about how extinction is natural never really give thought to what happens to predators that overhunt their prey, or to grazers that overeat the local plants. We are not above nature. We are going to be smacked down soon enough for our excesses.

[@alexandramihaylova5409]

Why did I get emotional when you told the story about the lonely last labradorian duck. That little guy deserved better😞

[@kenna2090]

Hey! This was a great video but there's a little thing I would like to add about the poultry disease theory on the Carolina Parakeets! (Hi hello, I'm a Biology and Environmental Science major who really likes researching and writing about the Carolina Parakeets!) Recently there was a study that completed their genome that sought out to find the reasoning behind their decline and extinction and there were no known viruses and haven't been detected disease yet. Poultry diseases are not entirely off of the table yet (but highly unlikely now), but the extinction of the Carolina Parakeet was completely abrupt and the most popular explanation is solely due to humans. There were many human-caused factors that contributed to their untimely demise. Some were from introduced species, one of which was the European Honey Bee that was believed to have limited nesting sites for the Parakeets! I'm really sorry if this comes off as mean or anything, but the topic of Carolina Parakeets is one I'm extremely passionate about! Again, this was an amazing video and I really enjoyed it! edit: sorry, spelling error!

[@Toomuchbullshitt]

That and the felling of old growth cypress trees in the Deep South was what likely doomed the Carolina Parakeet.

[@ardentaxiom]

"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired." ~Jonathan Swift I wish the remedy to ignorance, was knowledge, but alas it is emotion and that's only effective if the ignorant are capable of empathy. Most are not and are instead selfish by their very nature. I do applaud your attempt though. Yours is one of my favorite channels and has been for quite some time. I always watch every video all the way through and make certain to hit the like button. No where enough to compensate you for your dedication and passion for creating them. Your detailed work is incredible and much loved, as the response to this video clearly demonstrates. Thank you for all you do, it is greatly appreciated!

[@motopeter2409]

the reverse correlation of ingorance/intelligence and emotional influence is a pivotal realisation. that's why popularism thrives in politic and that's why elementary education is so important. unfortunayely western education strategies support liberal teaching wasting away the human brain natural capacity to absorb any information at that age. i keep thinking wheather this is deliberate to lower general knowledge ergo push to emotional influence or just ignorance driven by emotional bias towards liberalism...

[@dynamoterror7077]

That is both very inspiring and very depressing. The Revive-Restore foundation has Passenger Pigeon and Heath Hen de-extinction projects in the works, and I couldn’t be happier! Let’s support them.

[@Toast_94]

I'm really happy to know this is a thing, thanks for that. :3

[@Toast_94]

@Butch (the black cat from tom and Jerry) The Pyrennian Ibex! I did know about that, mostly through TierZoo. It's still cool just the same. :D

[@dynamoterror7077]

@Butch (the black cat from tom and Jerry) yeah, that was a landmark event, but it suffered the issues of cloning.

[@aidangm7419]

Awesome, I cant wait to see huge pigeon flocks the size of storm clouds

[@charlesyoung7436]

I wonder if the Great Auk or Northern Penguin, last seen around 1850, would be a candidate for de-extinction. It's habitat covered both Northwestern Europe and Northeastern North America, so it would have been eligible for this video.

[@mohdrazif777]

32:19 "I mean why does it matter if some animals go extinct. Not like they are all important" Human Rights Channel

[@vitaminluke5597]

Extinction-positivist, eco-nihilist, terminally-online right-wingers are the only species whose extinction would benefit the planet, and the best part is, they just have to change their minds to make it happen, no harm no foul (but hopefully more fowl).

[@KateeAngel]

Humans happen to be animals too. Don't tell that guy! 😂😂 And the one who claimed talking about extinction is "anti-human" probably is from the stock, who would call discussing negative consequences of colonialism "anti-white". Some people like to imagine that their in-group (ethnicity, species etc.) never does anything wrong

[@KateeAngel]

@@vitaminluke5597 those guys, and bed bugs, two species which are useless

[@vitaminluke5597]

@@KateeAngel as someone who's had a family member suffer from bedbugs, I agree lol. They don't carry disease, but they sure do carry misery

[@noeldenever]

Ironically, that comment makes me think maybe the world would be better if human and all our goddamn perceived rights go extinct.

[@kingced741]

We're feeling the affects of all the wild cats/house cats we let roam outside

[@sWEEc]

I like how you used the book to showcase different birds. I'd love to see more of your books in your content! It felt like an in person biology/history lesson.

[@evanm7337]

funny how people can claim to know so much about ecology and talk about how natural and acceptable extinction is, while showing no understanding of some of the massive ripples theses things can have, and how connected the natural world is. This is an insightful and useful video, very well made. ignore the bozos 🤡

[@jakev4191]

Who accepts extinction isn't bad???! Stop arguing with yourself in the shower.

[@thefolder69]

​@@jakev4191 did you watch the whole video??? he shows examples of such comments in the video itself

[@jshooa4840]

I can't believe I'm gonna witness 1 mil. I remember you with no face and when you were under 100, you are amazing dude, keep the good work up

[@ianism3]

I like how this channel has gradually changed from being purely about geography and history to one about ecology and evolution. it reflects the shift in my own interests over pretty much the exact same time period.

[@StudioNama]

The butterfly effect in full swing with that Lyme disease situation

[@MrAte-uo7yo]

Butterflies: Leave us outta this >:(

[@icarusbinns3156]

Tikka would have loved this video. Watching it now, without my magpie… it’s hard. I came home yesterday to a large group of crows and ravens clustered around something. It was Tikka. They were guarding his body, not letting anyone but me near him. I miss my feathered buddy

[@Rocketdog299]

31:48 My guess is that the people who left those comments felt personally offended by your videos, and therefore went on the defensive by minimalizing the effects of human activities on animal populations, because they are too uneducated and small-minded to understand that extinctions may ultimately end up backfiring on us. I honestly can't imagine any other reason why someone would say something so blatantly ignorant. Caelan, I would strongly advise you to simply ignore people like that. They don't deserve any attention, and since they obviously don't understand what your videos truly are about, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about their opinions. One of the many ironies of humanity is that stupid people often think they know it all without doing any research whatsoever, whereras intelligent people like you actually take the time to research stuff, so you can reach both an educated and a satisfying conclusion. You make some of the most intelligent and educated content I have ever seen on KZbin, and judging by the overwhelmingly positive feedback you get for this video (like virtually all of your other videos), I think you can be proud of what you do. You don't owe the people who posted those uneducated comments any explanation. Just keep making whatever content you enjoy making, and I'm sure that will make most of your subscribers very happy; myself included ;) .

[@semaj_5022]

Being from Louisville, KY, I grew up with an attachment to cardinals, always getting so excited as a kid when I spotted one. They're still one of my faves to this day and I'd be devastated just on a personal level if they went extinct, not to mention the environmental effect of that happening. Essentially all of the birds in this video had a range that included my home and it makes me so sad and a bit angry I'll never get to see a single one. We're still driving many species to extinction today as well, having seemingly learned nothing from our past, though really we've learned a lot and simply pushed it aside in the name of progress. I sincerely hope that pattern of behavior is broken in my lifetime and the species teetering on the brink today can be saved from the fate of the birds highlighted in this video. That aside, phenomenal video as always. Here's to reaching that 1 millions subs!

[@Username-le4eq]

Vid idea: Theres a lake in russia that existed for millions of years with interesting creatures. It even has the only freshwater seal. You've been making lots of islands and separation so it would be cool if you tackle this like an water edition 😆

[@nicholassmith479]

Lake Baikal?

[@ajrobbins368]

Thank you for using Lyme Disease as an example. I wouldn't be comfortable sharing such personal information with the Internet, but providing personal example here lends extra weight to your point. Keep up the excellent research, writing, editing, and presenting! You really go above and beyond producing quality educational videos.

[@Zeyev]

One of your anecdotes reminded me - of me. I was biking one day many years ago here in the District of Colombia when I saw a large woodpecker in a tree next to a residential street I nearly fell of my bike thinking it was the ivory-billed. I then looked up local birds in a book I have and found it was the pileated. Disappointment reigned. Alas.

[@eternalslumber2k6]

I just want to say that this channel is one of the best on this platform. I love the content, keep it up!

[@potatoespotatos]

Those comments you showed onscreen made whatever faith I still had in humanity sink even lower. Still, great video! I shared it with my dad, who is something of an enthusiast in Brazilian birds, and hopefully he'll have something to say on the subject of the birds he never met over on this side of the Equator!

[@MuertaRara]

Ok this is one of your best videos and I can't understand why it doesn't have more views. People are sleeping on this gem!

[@micahwoller7401]

I live is western Michigan and Pileated woodpeckers are quite common around me. One even had a nest in a hollow tree with a few chicks in it next to our walking trail.

[@kotobukijake7773]

Another bird which has been recently been declared extinct that more or less was found within my own neck of the woods in Virginia (in addition to all the covered and mentioned species except the great auk and perhaps the Labrador duck) is the Bachman's warbler. I agree that I personally am deeply disappointed to have not been able to see the Carolina parakeet alive (I have a fascination with "geographical oddities" of nature, and the bird was gorgeous to boot), and not getting to see any of the others also disappoints me as a lover of nature. It is worth mentioning that, of the two remaining subspecies of the greater prairie chicken, one is in steep decline and occurs over a tiny fraction of its former range, and the other is hanging on by a thread. Great video, and keep up the good work!

[@domino_201]

What about a video on North America's extinct plant species? we often talk about animals that go extinct.... but what about plants? Edit: Or is it even possible to find out what plants have gone extinct at all? I think that'd be a pretty interesting topic

[@uglymanchild7780]

Canebrake forests of the Southeast are interesting. American chestnuts got wiped out too

[@mentallathe]

Neat video, I have spent almost 10 years drawing at life sized every extinct bird of North America and Hawaii, now I've moved to New Zealand and India. Keep up the good work.

[@JUNCUSFUNCUS]

Weren’t Carolina parakeets hunted for their feathers as well? I remember reading about how it you shot one in a flock the others would fly away before return to almost mourn the dead one and then hunters would just keep shooting them.

[@phillbrown292]

As a lifelong paleo nerd, your channel has been a fun and informative dive into causes of declines and the tragedies we've caused and witnessed. This one touched me hardest because so many were needless exterminations of unique and beautiful birds. Keep up the amazing work, my friend, i always look forward to your videos.

[@terrenusvitae]

Ive pre-emptively liked this as I'm pretty sure it's gonna be good

[@andy-kg5fb]

I pre-emptively like every atlas pro video.

[@MrBattlecharge]

Hey everyone, we've got a smart person over here!

[@nicolasandrenoroes2533]

doing my research on the cases here in Brazil i discovered the small blue macaw that used to live in the temperate portion of my country, it was extinct a few decades ago when the last specimen died in a british zoo

[@AtlasPro1]

What a shame!

[@Legallyblonde1xo]

That's absolutely devastating!! I absolutely love Macaws. ❤️

[@Skyypixelgamer]

Are you talking about the spix’s macaw or another species?

[@nicolasandrenoroes2533]

@@Skyypixelgamer another one, the “arara azul pequena”, that lived in some portions of Argentina, Uruguai and south of Brazil

[@Skyypixelgamer]

@@nicolasandrenoroes2533 oh dang. Sounds like a neat bird. Sad it’s gone.

[@inissabri7428]

Such a well made video, keep it up! Your videos about extinct species are especially interesting.

[@tomasvrabec1845]

I love those old videos as introduction. It creates perfect context as to who and how they lived, in its true and believable form.

[@alexzaze1407]

18:50 I know these guys from Red Dead Redemption 2, there's even a optional side mission to absolutely extinct all of them, the game takes places in 1899(and damn these guys were a pain in the butt to find)

[@legoboy468]

I loved the last part of the video, I think stressing how they impact the wider environment and us is so important, animals deserve to exist for their own right, but I think we’ll have an easier time changing minds showing how they effect us, as we are part of nature too. This was a wonderful video : ) -another upstate New Yorker

[@Douge11]

Why is humanity’s first response to everything “How can I exploit that?” These videos are amazing, but they are just as depressing

[@KateeAngel]

Because we are hardly more advanced than any animal, they always think "food, food, food" and we think "money, money, money"

[@Caliber-R]

When I lived in Mass. my friend contracted Lyme disease. The amount of ticks back east is unreal. I moved from Utah and all my years running around in the mountains, hiking, hunting, camping and horseback riding I not any of my animals ever had ticks. In fact, my entire 10 years in Utah I found one tick, on time, on my cat’s ear.

[@jackrotz2139]

Poor lil Boomin Ben, last of his kind, mate calling out into vast nothingness, all alone into the void of extinction. So sad.

[@polar-bear-boyfriend3436]

Great video as always! Very well researched and well produced! I'm an ecology student and it'll always be mind blowing to me how complicated and beautiful and interconnected the ecosystem is. And I like that you're encouraging people to think more consciously about their native species and ecosystems. Cuz sustaining ecosystems is heavily dependent on the people being aware and appreciating that they have a part in it and they're not separate from it. If you don't mind some constructive criticism, I think it'd elevate your videos if you talked a lot more about the perspective of Native Americans, and examined more the way you frame and talk about them. For example, in the beginning, you described the precolonial American ecosystem as "intact." And I think you're missing out on some of the nuance there because the native populations that have been living there for millennia have been affecting and manipulating their environment. It just doesn't look as such to a Eurocentric pov because their cultivation techniques seem like a part of the natural ecosystem because it doesn't resemble the monoculture cropping systems they're used to. In ecological terms, native populations occupy a specific niche within their environment, which has been developed over the generations and the most sustainable cultivation systems have been selected for. And not allowing indigenous people's to practice their systems is akin to a trophic cascade. For example, peoples in the forests of the pacific northwest used to practice controlled burns in order to keep the forest understory clear enough so crops can be planted and grown there. When these peoples were displaced from their lands and not allowed to practice that, the understory became thicker with saplings and seedlings, and these would dominate the stand causing lower biodiversity compared to before. And they're also more easily burned causing increasingly severe wildfires. I'm vastly oversimplifying, but I just mean to say that I think it would enrich your channel if you examined native sources as well. And also, that when you're playing those old-timey clips, I think you should dispute their outdated claims in the video because it might spread misinformation. Like, the way the video you used in the opening framed Native Americans as "primitive" hunter gatherers takes away from their agency as stewards of the land.

[@c.rutherford]

"The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh. Have I cared enough about the water. Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness." - Chief Dan George (from Little Big Man)

[@Gingerwalker.]

Love this video. As sad as it might be. We just took a trip thru several states. I was continuously struck by the absolute lack of birds just about everywhere. Yes we did see birds. But they were very few and far between. Several years ago we just about had to dodge out of the way of birds on a similar trip. Now they just are not there. I have noticed that in the area we live that we rarely hear birdsong the last 3 or 4 years. Even in the spring. Don't even get me started on the stands of trees that have died from disease since we were last in these areas. No fires have happened there, yet. They are just dead. The balance is tipped and not in anyone's long term good.

[@kurtappley4550]

I realize its not a bird but I haven't seen a Monarch butterfly in two years. I have been actively searching milk weed plants for signs of the caterpillar feeding. If they are not gone they are very close to being gone. Experts are saying we are going into a mass extinction of species caused by that same old specie.....man. Is the human animal really more important????

[@dmitriho3671]

Where do you live?

[@Percy_Fawcett]

I had never found a KZbin channel that I loved so much, I am passionate about your videos and I´m thrilled every time you upload one. I want to congratulate, and thank you for your work, the choice of your content and how you present it is outstanding. Keep up what you do, it's amazing.

[@Akislav1990]

Rename it to "Birds I'll never meet", and you have an infitely more sad title.

[@TimYoshi]

Like that kids book which I saw few times in Walmart - "All my friends are dead" with lonely sad dino on the cover.

[@Akislav1990]

@@TimYoshi oh boy, is that book supposed to help kids deal with a mass shooting at school or what?

[@mastermuffles7097]

Hearing those comments made me mad. I'm glad you decided to treat them more kindly than I would have.

[@briangarrow448]

We are all connected to the earth. Some of us just don’t realize how closely we are.

[@drust2831]

If you live in a big city center, it might be hard to have a grasp on it

[@pHixiq]

Your quote belongs in a book 💯

[@blackbway]

I can't believe that in this day of information, someone would get on their phone and comment that some animals going extinct is not a big deal. Unbelievable.

[@live2walk]

When I was young in the 1970s, I learned about what led to the extinction of many of our native birds. It was saddening to think how much carelessness and malice played a part. I fear that the children of the future will be even more disgusted with how we have cared for the planet in our tenure.

[@dawnsoisson3140]

The video you played at 2:50 was actually a Pileated woodpecker, a woodpecker that is very much still around and not endangered actually being under ‘least concern’. It looks similar to the ivory-billed woodpecker having the same general shape and probably size but it is different. Most woodpeckers I’ve seen don’t have tufts and are small but pileated woodpeckers are freaking huge (and probably noisy). I haven’t seen either one of these before but my grandparents have seen some pileated jackhammering away at a stump in their yard, and my grandma does a lot of bird watching and gets a lot of woodpeckers (usually they’re much smaller).

[@dawnsoisson3140]

Sorry I should have watched the rest of the bit about the woodpeckers first I just wanted to share my story about the big noisy woodpeckers that my grandma keeps telling me about. I want to at least see those ones. Also it’s not that weird to be confused about the woodpeckers. My mom saw the much smaller red-bellied woodpecker on my feeder and thought it was the pileated one simply because it’s bigger than the tiny downy woodpeckers that are usually there.

[@dawnsoisson3140]

Also I have that book too my grandma got one for me. Sorry I like birds I want to talk about them.

[@ToucanPlayIt]

I'm super glad to say that the Ivory-billed woodpecker was rediscovered in April 2022 in a swamp in Louisiana! I admired this bird and when I heard it was rediscovered I got super excited!

[@lbgb9]

I've learnt so much from your deep dives into aviary extinction, it's so rare to find such well researched, passionately delivered and carefully constructed material on this kind of stuff. Honestly it's really reignited my love for the study of large scale geography! And I have to say your rebuttal to those dim comments in this video is so spot on, and delivered without contempt. You nailed it.

[@overlordofthepies]

The UK has a similar issue with lyme disease, with one of the major causes being the uncontrolled deer population due to the total lack of predators here. It is likely climate change will make things even cosier for the little bastards.

[@Raptorworld22]

At least U.K has re-wilding projects though, reintroducing wolves and otters and beavers to places that they used to be, but no longer inhabit. Give it a few decades, provided the pollution and climate change doesn't kill us all, and you might see the populations even back out again

[@EyreAffair]

After looking online, DNA studies of Labrador Duck specimens have shown a close genetic relationship to Steller’s Eider, including possible hybridization. It is possible that humans hunting the Labrador Ducks caused them to be outcompeted by Steller's Eider, also leading to the Labrador Duck being subsumed into the Steller's Eider population. We are currently seeing that happening now in the Pacific Northwest with the Barred Owl outcompeting, and hybridizing with, the endangered Spotted Owl.

[@martijn9568]

You talking about why we should prevent the extinction of animals reminds me of a podcast I hear. I believe it was from the Fall of Civilisations podcast about the Greenland Vikings. The episode in it self is extremely good and has widened the picture on these post setlement Norsemen a lot, but the thing that struck me the most was that they purposely didn't hunt a seal species nestling on the beaches, but rather those that nestled on the ice, probably for fear of exterminating them. P.S. You should really give that podcast episode a listen, it's really really good

[@AtlasPro1]

I've actually HAVE listened to this podcast! It's great, and the episode on the Greenland Vikings was one of the best

[@martijn9568]

@@AtlasPro1 Good to know you like it too

[@Skyypixelgamer]

@@martijn9568 sounds cool I kinda want to see it

[@jasoncrouse2826]

Awesome video. I also read up on passenger pigeons somewhat recently and was really surprised at how little it is talked about given just how abundant it was just 150 years ago. Thank you for telling their story and so many others.

[@pauraque]

WAIT you forgot the Bachman's Warbler and Eskimo Curlew!!!! Edit: if you're counting extinct subspecies like the heath hen, then you are also forgetting the Dusky Seaside Sparrow

[@TimYoshi]

Boom! That really touched me, especially part about "it's personal for me"... We can't think of ways how every our interaction with nature could turn out after a century.

[@Mojabi_ghost]

Thank you for that ending message of yours! It’s incredibly important that we preserve what little biodiversity the earth still has left, because we’re all going to have to reap the burden of when these species ultimately go extinct. On another note, the California flag actually has a photo of an extinct animal, the California grizzly bear which put today’s bears to shame in its proportion sizes, but was hunted to extinction during the California gold rush for its coat, and threat it posed to the livestock once the Europeans removed the Natives!:(

[@kingace6186]

Great job on this video. Once again Atlas Pro has helped a lot in informing and educating. Please make more videos on extinction like these. Keep up the great work.

[@dignelberrt]

Humans may be a force of extinction, but the level at which we are capable of is not natural. We introduce ourselves to ecosystems that don't account for us and uproot the whole thing. Preservation of all species is important. Yes, species will still go extinct, but unlike other species, we have the capability of recognizing what we are doing, and should strive to maybe not destroy entire ecosystems for our benefit.

[@phillipjohn4800]

Great video. I liked how personal this one felt, featuring extinct birds from where you live

[@Pedrosa2541]

7:00 - "much of the enviromnent was left intact prior to the arrival of european settlers" Mamooths/Americanlions/Short faced bears/Megatheriums - "Are we a joke to you?"

[@armandodesousa6375]

Extinction is a very sad reality of living on a planet populated by ignorant, selfish people. Some call it an example of the tragedy of the commons.. There are people who are more sensible, but too few to often make a difference. Great video. Thank you.