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"Passenger Pigeon Net, St. Anne's Lower Canada", 1829
Watercolor by James Pattison Cockburn
The Passenger Pigeons' migrations -- and their habit of nesting in dense colonies -- made them easy to hunt in large numbers. They were netted and shot by the hundreds of thousands for private consumption and for sale on the market, where they often sold for as little as fifty cents a dozen. |