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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.) Everyone knows Audubon’s famous illustration, but how many know that it has been harshly criticized for not being realistic? Fuller adores this picture (it is the cover of his book), and accuses its detractors of “pendantic ornithology.”

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