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01718aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 C179DF3C6B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 140417t20142015njua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780691162959 020 $a 0691162956 035 $a (OCoLC)877364528 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d YAM $d B@L $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n------ 050 4 $a QL696 C63 F85x 2014 100 1 $a Fuller, Errol, $e author. 245 14 $a The passenger pigeon / $c Errol Fuller. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2014] 300 $a 177 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-174) and index. 505 0 $a Prologue -- Introduction -- The annals of extinction -- Imagine -- The bird -- The downward spiral -- Extinction : the causes -- The last captives -- Martha -- Art and books -- Quotations -- Appendix : a magnificent flying machine. 520 $a At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end of the century, the most common bird in North America had vanished from the wild. In 1914, the last known representative of her species, Martha, died in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. 650 0 $a Passenger pigeon. 650 0 $a Extinct birds $z North America. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826101053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C179DF3C6B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search