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“Once There Were Billions” Exhibit Opens

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In honor of the opening of the Smithsonian Libraries’ new “Once There Were Billions” exhibit, Joel Greenberg, author of the recently published A Feathered River Across the Sky; The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction will be delivering a lecture titled “Echoes of Their Wings: The Passenger Pigeon and its Legacy” followed by a book signing on Tuesday, […]

A Feathered River Across the Sky

Feathered River Across the Sky

The Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, was so plentiful across early Nineteenth Century North America that passing flocks were said to block out the sun. By 1900 the last one found in the wild was captured and in 1914 the lone surviving member of the species died in a Cincinnati zoo.

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