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Definition of passenger pigeon in English: passenger pigeonnoun An extinct long-tailed North American pigeon, noted for its long migrations in huge flocks. It was relentlessly hunted, the last individual dying in captivity in 1914. Ectopistes migratorius, family Columbidae Example sentencesExamples - ‘Lost Passenger’ is a poem to the extinct passenger pigeon.
- As with other species whose populations humans have dramatically influenced - the passenger pigeon, the Canada goose, and the raccoon - whitetail deer have taught us how little we know about managing wildlife.
- The euro may strengthen against the dollar, but I think the dollar and the euro share the same fate, like the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet.
- The last passenger pigeon in the wild was reportedly shot by a boy in Ohio in 1900.
- If we had been smarter, we'd still have the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet.
- Some have become extinct, the great auk, the passenger pigeon and the famous dodo bird have all disappeared.
- Remains of birds that migrated into Alabama in the fall, such as the passenger pigeon, were identified.
- If the trend continues, soon enough the American hunter will be as extinct as the passenger pigeon.
- Although too late to save the passenger pigeon, which became extinct in 1914, they preserved the bison.
- One of the most popular Delmonico's dishes was the passenger pigeon, which went extinct in 1914.
- The bison and the passenger pigeon were nearing extinction.
- Animal resources historically thought inexhaustible, species like the passenger pigeon, the bison, and even the great whales themselves, have proved the most susceptible to over-exploitation or outright extinction.
- Fuller's stories of marginal survivals, tiny populations and often quite absurdly-limited habitats are balanced by the story of the passenger pigeon which once ranged across the American plains in billions.
- Birdlife International calls this the fastest bird species extinction in 150 years - the worst since the demise of the passenger pigeon.
- In the nineteenth century, hunters eradicated the passenger pigeon, drove the American bison to the brink of extinction, and eliminated elk from much of the central Rockies.
- The authors provide many examples of markets organizing the extinction of species, such as the passenger pigeon.
- American fears of wholesale species extinction, triggered by the loss of the passenger pigeon and the precipitous decline of bison, conjoined humanitarians and sports hunters in a way without parallel in Britain.
- The film is presented for the welfare of the world by the cheetah, the passenger pigeon and the dodo, which have become extinct.
- The passenger pigeon, once abundant in North American skies, was wiped out over a 50 year period at the end of the nineteenth century due to rapid deforestation and excessive hunting.
- The passenger pigeon was an attractive bird with a blue back and a pink breast that existed in huge populations.
Definition of passenger pigeon in US English: passenger pigeonnoun An extinct long-tailed North American pigeon, noted for its long migrations in huge flocks. It was relentlessly hunted, the last individual dying in captivity in 1914. Ectopistes migratorius, family Columbidae Example sentencesExamples - The euro may strengthen against the dollar, but I think the dollar and the euro share the same fate, like the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet.
- One of the most popular Delmonico's dishes was the passenger pigeon, which went extinct in 1914.
- In the nineteenth century, hunters eradicated the passenger pigeon, drove the American bison to the brink of extinction, and eliminated elk from much of the central Rockies.
- The passenger pigeon was an attractive bird with a blue back and a pink breast that existed in huge populations.
- Remains of birds that migrated into Alabama in the fall, such as the passenger pigeon, were identified.
- The bison and the passenger pigeon were nearing extinction.
- American fears of wholesale species extinction, triggered by the loss of the passenger pigeon and the precipitous decline of bison, conjoined humanitarians and sports hunters in a way without parallel in Britain.
- Animal resources historically thought inexhaustible, species like the passenger pigeon, the bison, and even the great whales themselves, have proved the most susceptible to over-exploitation or outright extinction.
- The authors provide many examples of markets organizing the extinction of species, such as the passenger pigeon.
- The passenger pigeon, once abundant in North American skies, was wiped out over a 50 year period at the end of the nineteenth century due to rapid deforestation and excessive hunting.
- Some have become extinct, the great auk, the passenger pigeon and the famous dodo bird have all disappeared.
- The film is presented for the welfare of the world by the cheetah, the passenger pigeon and the dodo, which have become extinct.
- Birdlife International calls this the fastest bird species extinction in 150 years - the worst since the demise of the passenger pigeon.
- If we had been smarter, we'd still have the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet.
- If the trend continues, soon enough the American hunter will be as extinct as the passenger pigeon.
- Although too late to save the passenger pigeon, which became extinct in 1914, they preserved the bison.
- The last passenger pigeon in the wild was reportedly shot by a boy in Ohio in 1900.
- ‘Lost Passenger’ is a poem to the extinct passenger pigeon.
- As with other species whose populations humans have dramatically influenced - the passenger pigeon, the Canada goose, and the raccoon - whitetail deer have taught us how little we know about managing wildlife.
- Fuller's stories of marginal survivals, tiny populations and often quite absurdly-limited habitats are balanced by the story of the passenger pigeon which once ranged across the American plains in billions.
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