The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birdsby James H. McCommons An epic, fascinating history of the fight to save America's birds From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the lands natural resources were infinite, including its birds, which were zealously hunted for food, game, and fashion. With the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeona bird once so numerous that its flocks darkened the sky in flightmany realized actions needed to be taken if other birds were to