The Passenger Pigeon / / Errol Fuller.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • The Annals of Extinction
  • Imagine
  • The bird
  • The Dowward Spiral
  • Extinction: The Causes
  • The Last Captives
  • Martha
  • Art and Books
  • Quotation
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Further Reading
  • Index