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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. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

According to Stanley Temple, a professor emeritus of conservation at the University of Wisconsin, “the extinction was part of the motivation for the birth of modern 20th century conservation.” ” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F.

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