A starling is not a Dodo.

Absolutely.

One is dead as a doornail and survives only as stuffed specimens nailed to perches. It occupied a particular niche in time and location, and found itself unable to adapt to a changing environment when competition arose for resources, and could not produce enough young to survive. So sad. Meanwhile one is alive and squawking happily.

And Darwin's finches, for a further bird example, survive today because they have evolved to meet each new environmental situation, producing various new sub-species to fill particular niches and cross-fertilising to maintain the genetic strength of the wider group.

Bottom line is adapt or die. Trying to nail your music back to a 50-year-ago definition, regardless of developments since then, can only result in it achieving dodo-hood.

Graham.