The passenger pigeon
By: Errol Fuller
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780691162959
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Passenger pigeon; Extinct birds
Description: "At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end of the century, the most common bird in North America had vanished from the wild. In 1914, the last known representative of her species, Martha, died in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoo."--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Introduction; title: The annals of extinction; title: Imagine; title: The bird; title: The downward spiral; title: Extinction : the causes; title: The last captives; title: Martha; title: Art and books; title: Quotations; title: Appendix : a magnificent flying machine.