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what will the last bird be like
This is going to require some clarification I think, since there are plentiform and mutually exclusive ways one could describe a ‘last bird’.If you mean the final species to be grouped into class Aves, then unfortunately I cannot answer the question given I’ve not easy access to a time machine. Life on this rock looks like it’s going to continue for a while and Birds have been around for a hundred million years already so I think regardless of which ones are last classified I think there’ll be more after we extinct ourselves with some trivially avoidable nonsense or other. They did survive the K-T extinction event after all, and I’m not sure what we could do that is worse.This of course leads into the next option of final species of bird that would be classed as Aves if we were still around which again the dearth of chronal displacement devices hampers my ability to answer. I think there were a few episodes of The Future is Wild that dealt with that premise though, so try looking there.
(The Future Is Wild fanart by HydromancerX on DeviantArt)
You could of course be asking after the final specific individual bird who will outlive any other bird (hypothetical or not) in which case they are already alive today. They are immortal and very difficult to solidly comprehend but they are the first and last bird, the beginning and end of conceptual existence for birds and I am in fact writing a guide to them when I have free time. That is The Project that I’ve been mentioning more and more often these days! It’s all very exciting stuff and I can hardly wait to publish my research, but I’m still waiting on a lot of art from semi-licensed field ornithartisans and I’ve got a couple of interviews with survivors of encounters with the bird in question that I need to line up and honestly i am riding that edge of excitement and terror at all times these days because I don’t feel I am anywhere qualified enough to describe the majesty of this bird.Anyway that’s the best answer I can give to your question, sorry I couldn’t be more help!