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Passenger Pigeons |
Passenger Pigeons lived in the eastern United States from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, breeding in their northern habitats and wintering in the southern part of their range.
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Science NetLinks: Passenger Pigeons: Nomads Lost |
Migrating flocks of Passenger Pigeons were a stunning sight. ... Each pair of Passenger Pigeons laid a single white, slightly glossy egg in their nest and the parents took turns incubating it...
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian: The Passenger Pigeon |
Early explorers and settlers frequently mentioned passenger pigeons in their writings.
www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/passpig.htm
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Songbird Foundation Birds: Extinct Species Passenger Pigeon |
Before their extermination, a single flock of passenger pigeons could have two billion birds or more, and there were many flocks in the United States.
www.songbird.org/birds/extinct/passpigeon.htm
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Passenger Pigeon |
Passenger Pigeons bred in large colonies, with up to 100 nests in a single tree. Nesting colonies could cover from 30 up to 850 square miles of forest.
www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/photos/passpigeon.htm
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Passenger Pigeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
During summer, passenger pigeons lived in forest habitats throughout North America east of the Rocky Mountains: from eastern and central Canada to the northeast United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Pigeon
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Extinction: The Story of the Passenger Pigeon |
One reason why the passenger pigeon existed in such prodigious numbers was the lack of natural predators apart from hawks and eagles. ... more general info on passenger pigeons (one in particular!)
www.eco-action.org/dt/pigeon.html
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The Passenger Pigeon |
Life is good, until one day a billion passenger pigeons move in down the block. They all plan to eat acorns too.
www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/779939pass.html
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The Passenger Pigeon |
"It was a great memorable day when the first flock of passenger pigeons came to our farm, calling to mind the story we had read about them when we were at school in Scotland.
www.ecotopia.org/about/pigeon.html
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Robinson Jeffers Poems |
Slowly the passenger pigeons increased, then suddenly their numbers; Became enormous, they would flatten ten miles of forest; When they flew down to roost, and the cloud of their rising;
www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng385/jefferspoems.htm