Passenger Pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius
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The Passenger Pigeon or Wild Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was a bird, which existed in North America and lived in enormous migratory flocks. One sighting in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mile wide, 300 miles long, and taking 14 hours to pass a single point with number estimates in excess of 3.5 billion birds in the flock. That number, if accurate, would likely represent a large fraction of the entire population at the...
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