Passenger Pigeons from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Passenger Pigeons from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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The historical population of passenger pigeons in North America was estimated to be 3 to 5 billion. Their huge flocks darkened the sky. Yet by the early 1900s they had disappeared from the wild, and the last captive bird died in 1914.

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Rene O'Connell

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