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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

PIGEON of September

First post from college. Yay! For this month I thought I would stick with the East Coast since I live here now. So as I was searching East Coast PIGEONS and I found the PASSENGER PIGEON. The head and tail of the PASSENGER PIGEON was a slate blue, the back was grey and the breast was red; they were similar to the mourning dove but a little larger. There used to be billions of PASSENGER PIGEONS that would fly of the East Coast. According to those who saw them fly over it was as though a great cloud had blocked out the sun. Because they were so prevalent PASSENGER PIGEONS were easy to hunt and many people used them as a source of food. People would kill as many as possible, any they did not eat could be sold of feed to pigs. Unfortunately the seemingly never ending supply of PASSENGER PIGEONS could not withstand so much hunting and PASSENGER PIGEON became extinct.

   

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