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Passenger pigeons decline

Market hunting and shrinking flocks drew attention to a once abundant North American bird. Newspaper pages from 1877 to 1900 on a map and timeline.

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296 matching newspaper pages in total. New York, NY has the most hits (14 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. The Sun — 1878-11-01, page 2

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … and scnerauve organs" For some years the Russian army has heen EXPERIMENTING with passenger pigeon, sn+ha nI with much success. Something like 80, 'rttH. fn-'' arc now at tho disposal …

  2. The Sun — 1891-04-05, page 24

    … most educated per sons even la Europe bar beard of the re nowned mocking bir the passenger pigeon and the eanraabaeked duck aa peculiar to North America To the tohlh of that region …

  3. New-York Tribune — 1891-12-27, page 28

    … there are come rare birds, the Moorhees pigeon from Seringapatam and the American “passenger” pigeon, which seems to have nearly died out with the buifalo, Both these birds breed plentifully …

  4. New-York Tribune — 1892-08-11, page 5

    … . Near the eagle house is the pigeon cot. Here there are a few specimens of the passenger” pigeon of thls country, which rot many years ago turned day Into pight as they migmted …

  5. New-York Tribune — 1895-10-27, page 10

    … The ruffled grouse is becoming almost extinct, and will soon be classed with the passenger pigeon. Men who have large tracts of land where they want to go shooting in the autumn …

  6. New-York Tribune — 1895-12-08, page 31

    … further south, and the pigeon pium, se called because it bears a berry that the passenger pigeon would fight to the death for, is also displayed. The wood of this tree is of a …

  7. New-York Tribune — 1898-07-03, page 9

    … tmly within the last few years was rought cut that a bird more familiar thru the passenger pigeon followed this of spending the night, although it adopted f fal! for massing by …

  8. The Sun — 1899-01-15, page 25

    … Historic Ilonsts Mnny Ynnrs Ako-DIi-npiienrnnce J.lko Thnt ot tlio Iluftnlo. Tlio passenger pigeon JCcloptetetMioratorlua of tho ornithologist, tho wild pigeon of tho siKiitsmnn …

    … 1 it Ing was .1 lending pastime among sputsiueii tun now but n lemembinnce 'Iho passenger pigeon, like the great auk 01 the Lu .Northland, is doomed to extlni tiou in this country …

  9. New-York Tribune — 1899-04-23, page 50

    … caused an item to work its way into circulation and to be spread that the ordinary passenger pigeon of birdology was, for some inexplicable reason or other, dying i out go rapidly …

    … Exdesired a number of specimens of the same for stuffing and mounting purposes. Now, passenger pigeons are net so numerous [English sparrows, of course, but, all the same, there are …

    … inhabits this globe. The bird scientist declines to state just how many boxes of passenger pigeons he has received up to date, together with “please remit” bills through the mails …

  10. The Sun — 1899-05-10, page 6

    … . There was general excitement at Lime llldgo recontly when a flock of American passenger pigeons passed north ovor that place, tho flock being n mil long and so denso as to nearly …

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