Assertion: passenger pigeon | /r/CapableOf | become extinct
Facets:
value: in 1914
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the wild
type: LOCATION
value: officially
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In modern times, it is the only pigeon species that was not an island species to have become extinct even though it was once the most numerous species of bird on Earth.[citation needed]
text: This has often led to mistaken identification and false reports of passenger pigeons long after they became extinct.
text: It was hard for early naturalists to imagine that the passenger pigeon could ever become extinct.
text: Seven years after the passenger pigeon officially became extinct in the wild, a few were reportedly spotted by a fairly reputable person: US President Theodore Roosevelt.
text: Passenger Pigeon becomes extinct.
text: The most common American wild pigeon is the small, gray-brown mourning dove Zenaidura macroura (sometimes called turtledove), similar to the once abundant passenger pigeon, which was slaughtered indiscriminately and became extinct in 1914.