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passenger pigeon†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a migratory wild pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, which appeared in immense flocks during August up to the late 19th century, becoming extinct by 1914.

See: pigeon,wild pigeon,wood pigeon

Quotations

1852

This falcon is not rare throughout the Mackenzie, where it preys on the passenger pigeons and smaller birds.

1908

But the bird most missed is the passenger pigeon.

1962

The prairie chicken, once numbered in hundreds of thousands, may follow the passenger pigeon which darkened the sky in huge flocks.