Why Did The Passenger Pigeon Go Extinct? The Answer Might Lie In Their Toes.
Billions of passenger pigeons once flew over North America, flocking together in huge clouds of birds. "There are crazy historic records about this thing blocking out the daytime sky for hours at a time," Shapiro says.
These awesome congregations also made the birds easy to hunt, and their numbers started to decline rapidly in the late 19th century. The last known passenger pigeon, Martha, lived at the Cincinnati Zoo until her death in 1914. Her body got frozen inside a 300-pound block of ice and shipped by train to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., where tourists can see her stuffed body on display in a glass case.
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Heard the story reported on public radio and appreciate your making the article available. Don't get to reading all of your article posts, but do read quite a number of them. Thanks!
NPR is great; listen to it all the time. I like to scout around for nature stories on California, but sometimes stories like this one of species going extinct are also good to post.
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