Occasionally I see HN posts that look to me like announcements that pigeons are extinct, and that lead to elegiac stories of pigeons, and discussions of the tre

Occasionally I see HN posts that look to me like announcements that pigeons are extinct, and that lead to elegiac stories of pigeons, and discussions of the trends in society that led to their extinction. Only I can walk to any park in town and see pigeons roosting on the statues. There are plenty of merry-go-rounds and monkey bars in the playgrounds of my region, plenty of tall swings and slides.