A now extinct breed of North American pigeon. Once extraordinarily common, it was hunted to extinction in the 19th century.
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Part II: Wisconsin
...the natural landscape, allowing the loam to slowly erode, restricting the rivers, and allowing the passenger pigeon to die off.
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Leopold meditates on the now extinct passenger pigeon , for whom a monument was built and dedicated in 1947. Society grieves for the...
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Part III: Natural History
...Instead, he is impressed by a chemist who taught himself about the history of the passenger pigeon by extensively reading archival material about it, and an Ohio housewife who obsessively observed and...
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