The text in this piece comes directly from the book by Neltje Blanchan titiled, Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted: Life Histories of One-Hundred Sevently Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water Fowls. The artist notes: "I love this book, the writing style is so good-- i copied the section on the passenger pigeon word for word around my sketch of the now extinct bird -- which i kept in black and white since we exterminated them we don't deserve to see them in color."

Sarah A. Smith lives in San Francisco (since 2000 by way of Pittsburgh, PA, preceded by Boston, MA) Two recent solo shows of Smith's work were presented by Ampersand International Arts (2017) and at the SFAC Grove Street Windows (2015). Her most recent group shows were at CCSF Rosenberg Library, Satellite of Love, and Incline Gallery. In 2016, Smith was included in Gold Rush, a group exhibition at The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University and Bird in the Hand at Palo Alto Art Center. Smith is currently enrolled in an ornithology class at CCSF pursuing a newfound interest in birds and birding.