Thank you for posting this topic ItsMeLucy! I’ve had the same question, so you helped me.
I often think about Martha, the last passenger pigeon. Passenger pigeons were once so common that they were said to ‘darken the sky’ for hours or days as they migrated in large flocks.
We simply can’t know what our observations could mean in the future.
(Martha is special to me because she lived out her days at my local Cincinnati Zoo. )