Passenger Pigeon Extinction: In 1914, the passenger pigeon disappeared after once filling North American skies, becoming one of history’s greatest wildlife losses
There was a time when passenger pigeons were so numerous that their flocks darkened the skies for hours. People believed a bird found in such unimaginable numbers could never disappear. There are few stories in nature as heartbreaking as that of the passenger pigeon. It is not because the bird was rare or fragile. It…