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Hardcover A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction Book

ISBN: 1620405342

ISBN13: 9781620405345

A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction

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In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other sound. Feeding flocks would appear as "a blue wave four or five feet high rolling toward you."

John James Audubon, impressed by their speed and agility,...

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