cockroaches, rats and pigeons

the ivory billed wood pecker would seem to me to represent a case of specialization, a biodiversity that is not necessarily Darwinian in order, a creature that developed to live successfully in the lost american wilderness. in its lack of adaptability, it shows us the defiant side of environmental balance, one that refuses to eat garbage or nest in skyscrapers. it is in its rarity, size and objective beauty a reminder of how callous we can be towards the natural order, how easily we could dismiss it, until it was or might be to late. it is a wonderful representation because as the reading suggests, something about it can captivate the human imagination, even civilization can grasp something of its inherent biotic value, and bring us to pause and reflect on what the natural order is, and what humans would assume is a normal succession of event, e.i progress. we can acknowledge in the woodpecker that alien intelligence and purpose so far from our own, and we are then able to regret its loss, and that of others like it.

P.S: sorry its late, i had no idea we had an hour to do it by!!