Extinction: The Story of the Passenger Pigeon
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Description: Brief history of the events leading up to the extinction.
Extinction: The Story of the Passenger Pigeon The Story of the Passenger Pigeon Probably the most terrible example of mass slaughter in the history of wildlife was not the bison but the passenger pigeon - a story that almost defies belief. The early Europeans in North America frequently commented on the huge numbers of blue, long-tailed, fast and graceful pigeons in the country. One of the first settlers in Virginia wrote that, `There are wild pigeons in winter beyond number or imagination, myself have seen three or four hours together flocks in the air, so thick that even have they shadowed the sky from us.' Similar reports can be found from the Dutch on Manhattan Island in 1625, from Salem in Massachusetts in 1631 and some of the first explorers in Louisiana in 1698.
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| Page title: | Extinction: The Story of the Passenger Pigeon |
| Keywords: | passenger pigeon, passenger pigeons, pigeon, extinction, species extinction, extinct |
| Description: | The Passenger pigeon, when europeans first arrived in america, numbered in the billions. within 300 years they were extinct |
| IP-address: | 87.237.58.16 |