Tourte voyageuse

Tourte voyageuse

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The passenger pigeon was the most abundant bird species on Earth in the 19th century! It was only found here in North America. Its population has been estimated at between three and five billion! This species, Ectopistes migratorius, is now extinct. On September 1, 1914, the last traveling pigeon, a female nicknamed Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio. She was 25 years old. How to explain such a disappearance in such a short time? What do we know about this species? To find out more about the disappearance of the passenger pigeon, see Spotlight on… the passenger pigeon, an extinct species!
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