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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. How many eggs did a pigeon lay?

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