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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.) Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise. Everyone knows Audubon’s famous illustration, but how many know that it has been harshly criticized for not being realistic?

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Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage

10,000 Birds

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. I will never forget seeing a flock of around 1,000 birds in Michigan, especially as it took me two decades to come up with a total of two observations (at a single bird each, both females) of its European/central Asian counterpart.

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