"The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop
Meet Paul Linberl- ornithologist, or in plain English a scientist who studies our fine feathered friends. To him this is an ordinary day, exceptional in that he is on the bus as his car in being serviced. And his book, 'Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World' is also his normal choice of reading material. But this a chance encounter on this bus is going to take our protagonist into a bird watching trip through the Twilight Zone.
Portrait of a scientist, Paul Linberl, who will be hitting the talk show circuit after he is done hitting the bottle. Yes, he has the popular magazine articles but only to deliver the same tragic news as before. He will also deliver a warning to fellow members of his species on behalf of the dodo, passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, great auk and too many others to presently list. Recklessness with this world will result in too many creatures with whom we share this world to be only found in books, museums and in the Twilight Zone.
