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

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We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. We have a lot of source material. What a horror!

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

.” Contemporary environmentalism arrived too late to prevent the passenger pigeon’s demise due to market hunters, but the two phenomena share a historical connection. ” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. “The A newly created U.S. But I digress.

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