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A feathered river across the sky : the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction /

Greenberg, Joel

A feathered river across the sky : the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction / Passenger pigeon's flight to extinction Joel Greenberg. - First U.S. edition. - New York, NY : Bloomsbury, c2014. - xiii, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Life of the wanderer -- My blood shall be your blood : indians and passenger pigeons -- A legacy of awe -- Pigeons as provisions to pigeons as products -- Means of destruction -- Profiles in killing -- The tempest was spent : the last great nestings -- Flights to the finish -- Martha and her kin : the captive flocks -- Extinction and beyond -- A passenger pigeon miscellany.

9781620405345

2013016927


Passenger pigeon.
Extinct birds.

QL696.C6 / G74 2014

598.168

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