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by Joel Greenberg
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- Title A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
- Author Joel Greenberg
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury USA
- Date 2014-09
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781620405369 / 1620405369
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.52 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 14.02 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Extinct birds, Passenger pigeon
- Dewey Decimal Code 598.168
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Bloomsbury USA, 2014-09-01. paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Very good paperback SIGNED and inscribed by author Joel Greenberg. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; exterior shelfwear is very minor. Text is also very good and interior appears free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Bloomsbury, 2014. Paperback. New. In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other sound. Feeding flocks would appear as 'a blue wave four or five feet high rolling toward you.'John James Audubon, impressed by their speed and agility, said a lone passenger pigeon streaking through the forest 'passes like a thought.' How prophetic—for although a billion pigeons streamed over Toronto in May of 1860, little more than fifty years later passenger pigeons were extinct. The last of the species, Martha, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914. As naturalist Joel Greenberg relates in gripping detail, the pigeons' propensity to nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting market and recreational hunting. The…
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