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Female passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. The male was larger, with iridescent bronze feathers on the neck and black spots on the wings. The female was smaller, duller, browner, and lacked the iridescence. The passenger pigeon mainly inhabited the deciduous forests of eastern North America and bred primarily around the Great Lakes. The pigeon migrated in enormous flocks, and was once the most abundant bird in North America -- numbering around 3 to 5 billion. Its population size fluctuated rapidly over time, crashing and expanding over and over. A bird used to extremely large flocks, the large breeding populations necessary for preservation of the species were decimated by hunting in the 1800s. A rapid decline occurred between 1870 and 1890. The last wild bird was shot in 1901. The last captive bird, Martha, died on September 1, 1914, at the Cincinnati Zoo. |
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| Author | Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Tim Evanson at https://flickr.com/photos/23165290@N00/34800481865 (archive). It was reviewed on 6 January 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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