Remembrance of the Recent Past

Genesis 2:20 "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field"

Golden toad; southern gastric brooding frog; southern day frog; bennett's seaweed;  Tazmanian wolf; jambato toad; Yunnan lake newt; the Kauai 'O' o; Atitlán grebe; the Kama'o; the haha; silversword; St. Helena olive; the dodo; Réunion solitaire;  Rodrigués solitaire; the Moas; Layson honey-eater; Ula-Ai-Hawane; common mamo; black mamo; passenger pigeon; great auk; Bonin wood pigeon; Tahitian sandpiper; crested shellduck; Cuban red macaw; Guadaloupe Island caracara; mysterious starling; European wild horse; Dutch Alcon blue butterfly; Hispaniolan and Cuban ground sloth; Portuguese ibex; Pyrenean ibex; Ratas Island lizard; Santo Stephano lizard; Sardinian lynx; sea mink; European aurochs; the mongo; Bamff longnose dace; blue pike ; longjaw ciscoe; duck-billed buntingi; poso bungu; graceful priapella; alien splitfin; pupfish; least silverside; cachorrito del la presa; Salado shiner; phantom shiner; kilch; Clear lake splittail; Tecopa pupfish; Monkey Spring pupfish; Maryland darter; scioto madtom; San Marcos gambusia; Uzbekistan dwarf sturgeon; lesser stick-nest rat; toolache wallaby; negros naked-backed fruitbat; Philippines bare-backed fruitbat; Dobson's fruitbat; Columbian grebe; bar-winged rail; dusky seaside sparrow; carolina parakeet; heath hen; Guam flycatcher; Aldabra bush-warbler; Javan tiger; Steller's sea cow; Rodrigués saddle-backed giant tortoise; quagga; western black rhino; Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey; Barbary lion; cape lion; Bali tiger; Caspian tiger; Caribbean monk seal; Falkland Island wolf, bluebuck, red gazelle, Queen of Sheba's gazelle; tarpan; Arabian gazelle; Schomburgk's deer; Carpathian wisent; Causasian wisent; Bubal hartebeest; Tasmanian tiger;  Canary Islands oystercatcher; Haast's eagle; North Island Adzebill; South Island Adzebill; Aepyornis; giant aye-aye lemur; Madagascar Pygmy hippopotamus; Malagasy hippopotamus; Pecatonica mayfly; Panay giant fruitbat; Panay golden-capped fruit bat; Hawai'i chaff flower; Poko noctuid moth; Midway noctuid moth; Kerr's noctuid moth; Laysan noctuid moth ; Procellaris grotis noctuid moth; Oahu 'akialoa; Maui nui 'akialoa; lesser 'akialoa; Kauai 'akialoa; Coosa elktoe; Carolina elktoe; Ochlockonee arcmussel; Gokce baligi; Mauritius blue-pigeon; Rodrigués pigeon; Robert's stonefly; Saint Croix racer; Martinique parrot; Guadeloupe parrot; Martinique giant ameiva; Shoal sprite; Amsterdam island duck; Chatham Island bellbird; red rail; Rodrigués rail; Kosrae starling; Norflok starling; Dominican green-and-yellow macaw; Jamaican green-and-yellow-macaw; Jamaican red macaw; Lesser Antillean macaw; Red-throated wood rail; Guadaloupe parakeet; double-banded argus; Chestnut ermine moth; Ascension flightless crake; Saint Helena crake; Round island burrowing boa; Oriente cave rat; Torre's cave rat; Chatham Island fernbird; Hispaniolan edible rat; Alajuela toad; Monte Verde Toad; orange toad; small Saint Helena petrel; buff nosed rat-kangaroo; desert rat-kangaroo; plains rat-kangaroo; Labrador duck; Jamaica giant galliwasp; pig-footed bandicoot; the kioea; Parras characodon; Snake River sucker; Bonin grosbeak; kona; Grace's emerald; Gould's emerald; Cahaba pebblesnail; umbilicate pebblesnail; Réunion pigeon; Ryukyu pigeon; rabbit-eared tree-rat; white-footed rabbit-rat; wite-footed tree-rat; central valey grasshopper; deepwater ciscoe; blackfin ciscoe; Utah Lake sculpin; New Zealand quail; snake-eating coua; Yunnan box turtle; tree cyanea; Gifford's cyanea; Mark's cyanea; oakleaf cyanea; Raiatea parakeet; black-fronted parakeet; Hawkin's rail; Mt. Matafao different snail; hula painted frog; King Island emu; Kangaroo Island emu; Lana'i hookbill; St Helena dove; American chestnut moth; Phleophagan chestnut moth; short-spired elimia; closed elimia, fusiform elimia; high-spired elimia; constricted elimia; hearty elimia; ribbed elimia; rough-lined elimia; pygmy elimia; pupa elimia; puzzle elimia; cobble elimia; recovery pearly mussel; winged spike; ash meadows killifish; arc-form pearly mussel; angled riffleshell; arculate pearly mussel; acorn pearly mussel; narrow cat'spaw;  Lewis pearly mussel; round combshell; Tennessee riffleshell; Sampson's naiad; turgid riffleshell; Cumberland leafshell; Mexican dace; Réunion Kestrel; Mascarene coot; Whiteline topminnow; Norfolk Island  ground-dove; Tanna ground-dove; Thickbilled ground-dove; Tristan moorhen; Dieffenbach's rail; Tahitian rail; Wake Island rail; Amistad gambusia; San Marcos gambusia; Arabian gazelle; Cuban coney; Swan Island hutia; Lord Howe gerygone; thick-billed chub; Xerces blue; excised slitshell; striate slitshell; pagoda ribshell; ribbed slitshell; pyramid slitshell; round slitshell; confused moth; minute noctuid moth; greater 'amakihi; huia; imposter hutia; kawaihae hibiscadelphus; Tobias caddisfly; Mono Lake diving beetle; lovegrass noctuid moth; lake pedder earthworm; New Zealand little bittern; central hare-wallaby; eastern hare-wallaby; least hare-wallaby; lined pocketbook; Maderian land snail; Anthony's riversnail; agate riversnail; oblong riversnail; interrupted riversnail; maiden riversnail; rotund riversnail; lyrate riversnail; bigmouth riversnail; Coosa riversnail; striped rocksnail; Levuana moth; Mauritius grey parrot; broad-billed parrot; eelgrass limpet; Cape Verdé giant skink; Réunion sheldgoose; Rodrigués owl; Réunion owl; Tombigbee moccasinshell; Maui upland damselfly; Antillean giant rice-rat; Santa Lucia giant rice-rat; corss-bearing pelea; obovate melicope; aukland Island merganser; Choiseul pigeon; Oahu 'O'o; Bishop's 'O'o; Hawai'ian 'O'o; hairlip sucker; New Zealand greater short-tailed bat; St. Helena cuckoo; Antioch Dunes shieldback katydid; Aldabra warbler; Atalaye nesophontes; western Cuban nesophontes; St. Michel nesophontes; Haitian nesophontes; Darwin's Galapagos mouse; indefatigible galapagos mouse; Norfolk Island kaka; short-tailed hopping mouse; long-tailed hopping mouse; big-eared hopping mouse; Darling Downs hopping mouse; Ameca shiner; Durango shiner; Réunion night-heron; Mauritius night-heron; Rodrigués night-heron; Nendo tube-nosed fruit bat; Lord Howe fruit bat; crescent nail-tailed wallaby; Nelson's rice rat; Verhoeven's giant tree rat; kakawahie; Moorean viparious treesnails; Mt Alifana partula treesnail; Flores long-noes bat; Seychelles black terrapin; robust burrowing mayfly; Blackburn's weevil; desert bandicoot; Pemberton's deermouse; Pallas's cormorant; Puerto Rican flower bat; Fish lake physia; acorn ramshorn; Ainsworth's salamander; highnut; hazel pigtoe; scioto pigtoe; brown pigtoe; Georgia pigtoe; yellow pigtoe; coosa pigtoe; Alabama pigtoe; longnut; warrior pigtoe; Judge Tait's mussel; Alabama clubshell; true pigtoe; eiao monarch; ua pou monarch; nuku hiva monarch; maupiti monarch; Lord Howe island swamphen; Réunion gallinule; New caledonia gallinule; North Island takahe; broad-faced potoroo; Barbados raccoon; Sardinian pika; white-winged sandpiper; New Zealand grayling; Gould's mouse; Newton's parakeet; Seychelles parakeet; large St helena petrel; dusky flying fox; large palau flying fox; dark flying fox; Guam flying fox; red mustached fruit dove; corded purg; olive marstonia; twisted toothed mouse; slender-billed grackle; Las Vegas leopard frog; Maclear's rat; bulldog rat; lesser koa-finch; greater koa-finch; wicker ancylid; Castle Lake caddisfly; Lak Pedder planarian; silver trout; laughing owl; kona giant looper moth; perrin's cave beetle; pallid hairy dwarf porcupine; rubious cave amphipod; stumptooth minnow; tasman booby; Tonga ground skink; Pasadena freshwater shrimp; Mt Glorious day frog; Eastwood's whip lizard; Réunion flightless ibis; chestnut clearwing moth; Stephe's island wren; Athen's caddisfly; three-tooth caddisfly; Fort Ross weevil; Yorba Linda weevil; Ola'a peppered looper moth; Grand Cayman thrush; North Island piopio; South Island piopio; St Helena hoope; emperor rat; Guadalcanal rat; Skottsberg's wikstroemia; hairy wikstroemia; bush wren; Japanese sea lion; robust white eye...

And thousands more unknown to science in this sixth great extinction.

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[Jennifer]

Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

[Miss Chestnuts]

And God wept.