Passenger pigeon.

A pigeon that is particularly fond of traveling, a typical representative animal of the group.

The largest population is capable of numbering more than 100 million individuals, and at some point in history, it outnumbered humans, at least five billion.

In the 17th century, some European pioneers who had just arrived in the United States encountered a flock of passenger pigeons while driving a horse-drawn carriage in the wilderness.

They fly through the air, obscuring the sun for hours, and the flock is 500 kilometers long and 1.6 kilometers wide.

But it was such a huge group that slaughtered these passenger pigeons more than 200 years after the arrival of Europeans!

In September 1914, an artificially bred passenger pigeon died, and the passenger pigeon was never heard from again, and it was confirmed that it was extinct.

As the most famous bird that has become extinct in modern times, this incident has been recorded in previous American textbooks, so most of the people who can recognize it are workers over forty-five years old, and this pigeon with a red belly is almost like a picture album in a textbook!

This year happens to be the 90th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon, and I actually saw this species again in the snowy mountain pasture!

The worker who had screamed earlier was frightened, scared away the passenger pigeon, and lowered his voice and shouted: "Where did you find it?!!Is there only one?!"

"I picked it up in the snow, and it almost froze to death. ”

Han Xuan said, looking at the pigeon staring intently at the crumbs on the plate, he couldn't imagine that he had saved a super endangered protected animal.

The passenger pigeon has always been a pain in the hearts of Americans because their ancestors killed the pigeon, and even decades after their extinction, a monument was erected in the Park of Liwai Erousen in Wisconsin.

If the news gets out, tomorrow all the newspapers will use it as a headline, without exception.

"There must be other passenger pigeons. Otherwise, it wouldn't have multiplied to this day, O God, thank you for your kindness!"

As soon as the worker's words were spoken, many people turned their eyes to him, which was the result of human beings, and what had to do with God

Father Han took a sip of wine and sighed that if they really lived near the pasture. Then in the future, there will be no more chemical fertilizers and pesticides for hundreds of kilometers nearby.

This is a good thing, because the fertilizer used in Gonzalez's ranch used to flow down the rainwater to the Mori River, resulting in too high pesticide residues along the river to be truly organic.

The government will never allow them to use it again in the future, and that means a large amount of subsidies, estimated to be more than $5 million a year based on the size of the snow-capped mountain ranch.

I was stunned by this pigeon. After raising his head and drinking, he grinned and smirked, "Jensen, is there a camera here? ”

"Yes, but in my dorm, I'll get it. ”

Jensen saw his colleague's bright eyes and stood up helplessly.

The glory of discovering an extinct passenger pigeon is so fascinating. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a team of biologists searched for more than thirty years, from Canada to Central America. Even so, they could not be found, and they are now more precious than the bald eagle, the national bird!

"Hurry up! The passenger pigeon likes to run around, and when it is rested, it will fly!"

In fact, the worker thought too much, and the passenger pigeon squatted down lazily, so comfortable that he was smoked by the hot spring steam, and he had no idea of leaving.

I haven't eaten since yesterday. Finally, I couldn't help but fly to the small wooden table and eat the bread crumbs on the plate.

A young man in his twenties opened his eyes wide in surprise, shook his companion next to him, and pointed to himself as his bread.

The water temperature drops quickly. But no one offered to change the water, for fear that the movement would scare away the passenger pigeons.

Jensen ran tremblingly, raised his camera and quickly undressed, and walked into the hot spring, Han Xuan took it from him, wading through the water and approaching it carefully.

The pigeon cooed, and its little head could not remember who its savior was, but this feeling of closeness made it not afraid, and tilted its head curiously in the face of the flashing lights.

The body could feel cold when he was soaked in the water, and Jensen waited for him to shoot it, opened the pumping valve, and the hot spring water gushed out, and the water from the former pool flowed out along the drainage pipe.

Father Han got up and wiped his hands, stood up and ran to the RV to get a phone, and when the beginning of spring is the peak period for the use of chemical fertilizers, the news will be revealed one day earlier, and the time for legislation will be one day earlier.

Others are afraid of banning pesticides, but he is not afraid, because the snow-capped mountain ranch has never been used in the first place, counting the government subsidies, other ranches also have money, and there are still two months left in this year, maybe he can make a fortune from the state government.

He gave the phone to Han Xuan and said, "Is there a newspaper you are familiar with?" Sell the news to them. ”

Han Xuan was stunned for a moment, understood his father's idea, and calculated how much money he should sell, the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle usually report on themselves mostly positively, they have cooperation with SOS Group, and the old man will spend a lot of money to advertise on it every year.

I was about to dial the number of the editor-in-chief of the New York Times, remembering that I had asked HOPE Technology to produce a news website some time ago, and then I turned to the temporary director of the company, Professor Christopher.

Christopher didn't know Han's father's number, so he picked it up and asked, "Who are you?"

"Han Xuan, I want to ask the company's news website, is it done?"

"Ah, it's you, it's done, Mr. Anthony helped contact several small newspaper companies in Silicon Valley, which have been hanging on the Internet for four days, and currently have less than 5,000 hits, and the effect is not very good. ”

This is what Han Xuan expected, the popularity has not been opened, and the number of clicks on the website will definitely not go up, and he said: "I have a message, I will send it to you by fax when I go back, and hang it on the website to make headlines, what do you think about promotion?"

“…… Not yet, so we can only come up with something attractive, and negotiations with major media companies to buy news are underway, and the other party doesn't seem to be very interested, or the bid is too high. ”

"Don't be afraid to spend money, I'll tell Mr. Anthony, is Harris by your side?"

"Here, you wait. ”

Christopher's voice shouted at Harris on the phone, and after a while someone spoke: "What's the matter with me?"

Han, I'm busy, Isabelli is here, I have to take her to Stanford University to play, it's all your good thing!"

"Harris, we'll talk about that later.

If, I mean, if you were asked to send mass emails to other Internet users, would you be able to do that?"

"Mass messaging? It should be possible, Microsoft and Netscape have ports to send emails to product users, as long as I hack it and get permission, I can send files to all users of these two companies.

But what exactly do I do? I'm a serious person now, and I don't do anything illegal. ”

"The devil believes you, send a link to the news site, click on it to go to our company's news site, don't leave a handle" (to be continued.) )