Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct | Audubon
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passenger pigeon's extinction. ... of an 1880 massacre, describing how the scorched adults would flee and the ...Passenger pigeon - Wikipedia
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The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon ..... At once, like a torrent, and with a noise like thunder, they rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the center. ..... The pigeons were used as living targets in shooting tournaments, such as "trap-
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Extinction: The Story of the Passenger Pigeon - eco-action org
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The Passenger pigeon, when europeans first arrived in america, numbered in the ... Probably the most terrible example of mass slaughter in the history of wildlife was ... After 1830 the practice of releasing live pigeons from traps for shooting ...Extinction of the Passenger Pigeons • Damn Interesting
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Jun 28, 2006 - Passenger Pigeons (Ectopistes Migratorius) were once so ... crowded with men and boys, incessantly shooting at the pilgrims, which flew lower ...Encyclopedia Smithsonian: The Passenger Pigeon
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The extinction of the passenger pigeon is a poignant example of what .... When the adult birds that survived this massacre attempted second nestings at new ...Passenger Pigeon: an Extinct Species - Bagheera
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How could the passenger pigeon be extinct when it was the most abundant bird species on ... What other mass migrations no longer occur or are in danger of ...Martha, the Very Last Passenger Pigeon - The Atlantic
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Sep 18, 2014 - She was a passenger pigeon, the last of her kind, and she is one of the most .... As James explains, the mass killings quickly culled flocks to the ...The Birds - The New Yorker
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Jan 6, 2014 - Why the passenger pigeon became extinct. ... If the birds had been carried off in a mass avian rapture, or a ... Twenty-nine years later, a boy in Ohio shot a passenger pigeon out of a tree with a twelve-gauge shotgun, killing ...
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