This beautifully written cautionary tale reveals how passenger pigeons have become extinct and how no series effort was made to protect this species that inspir

A haunting, beautifully illustrated memorial to this iconic extinct bird At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundan

"The Passenger Pigeon" from John James Audubon. French-American naturalist and painter (1785-1851).

Published in 1955 by the University of Oklahoma Press, this is the classic study of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. The passenger pigeon, once probably