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

✍ Scribed by Greenberg, Joel

Book ID
100116272
Publisher
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
752 KB
Edition
First U.S. edition
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1620405350

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✦ Synopsis

Naturalist Joel Greenberg relates how the pigeons' propensity to nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting market and recreational hunting. His cautionary tale provides a close look at what happens when species and natural resources are not harvested sustainably.;Life of the wanderer -- My blood shall be your blood : indians and passenger pigeons -- A legacy of awe -- Pigeons as provisions to pigeons as products -- Means of destruction -- Profiles in killing -- The tempest was spent : the last great nestings -- Flights to the finish -- Martha and her kin : the captive flocks -- Extinction and beyond -- A passenger pigeon miscellany.

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