Stan;
100% on that last post.
As to the passenger pigeons my dad was born in 1910 & he well remembers the Chestnut Blight wiping out the chestnuts. I don't recall him mentioning having ever seen a flight of passenger pigeons. As I recall they were long gone by the time he was born, much less could remember.

Miller/TN
I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra