Eggs Raised Slaughter Wisconsin 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. However, the age of the Golden Gooney was to come to a brutal end; beginning in the late 1800′s, they were being slaughtered by the millions for their feathers at their breeding colonies. Photographed in Crawford County, MI, by Chris McCreedy.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
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? How many times did it nest?
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