"The Thing with Feathers"

Although I have never been interested in reading about extinct birds, especially a 12 page article on one, I found this article rather enjoyable to read. The tone, in the beginning especially, was more casual than the last article we read on the ivory-billed woodpecker. Having a casual tone in the beginning didn't make the article drag on for the whole 12 pages and actually made me want to keep reading. How Wells Tower described the people he talked to, Bayou de View, and the bird, made reading this article more entertaining. When I got towards the middle of the article though it got a little more boring when he starting writing about the history of the bird and the destruction of its habitat. The last sentence he wrote really caught my eye. He wrote about how a flash of black white and red caught his eye and thinking it was the woodpecker he turned his head only to see a semi carrying new cars. This last sentence, I think, shows how we as humans are invasive and cause species to go extinct. If we wouldn't of started logging in the ivory-billed woodpecker's habitat, it may still be alive today.