For example preferred habitat, preferred foods, preferred home range, ect. We never learned the important things that made it possible to find smaller flocks. We never developed the skills to hunt small flocks because we never needed to due to the overpopulated million bird flocks. Flocks were so large all you had to do was follow and kill indisciminately. I read every written account of hunting Passenger Pigeons and to me it doesn’t sound like hunting to me. I think the real problem was Passenger Pigeons needed to breed in a large colony for us to be able to find them.

Lets start with the theory “One of the traits of the Passenger pigeon was it needed a large colony to breed and raise its young.”

I will try and address all your concerns as to why this shouldn’t be possible. I appreciate everyones support and even your scepticism. The last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, died completely alone at the Cincinnati Zoo at about 1:00 pm on September 1, 1914. The telegraph would help to spread where the locations of flocks could be ascertained, and the birds were hunted relentlessly, then modern shipping saw to their shipment for marketsĪ remarkable bird, all estimates say that the passenger pigeon could reach speeds of 70 miles per hour and sometimes faster. Our very advances in technology helped to speed the death and extinction of this beautiful bird Tens of thousands of individuals were harvested daily by hunters, who hunted into their nesting colonies and shipped them to markets to be processed. The short, black bill, slender in its makeup was well suited to the diets the birds ate, which were acorns, beechnuts, chestnuts, various fruits, grains and insects. Male coloration was deeper and brighter than the female. It was slate blue on its head and bottom, a gray back and a lovely wine red breast. The Passenger Pigeon was similar to but larger than the Mourning Dove. This may be the only species in the entire world for which the exact time of extinction is known down to the moment it happened.

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