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Description
Title
Passenger
Pigeon
Subject
Plants and Animals
Birds
Pigeons
Place
Portsmouth (Ohio)
Scioto County (Ohio)
Description
This
passenger
pigeon
was
shot
in an
orchard
in
Portsmouth
,
Ohio
by
Arthur
Bannon
around
1882
. He
presented
it
to his
mother
, a
taxidermist
,
who
wanted
a
specimen
of the
nearly
extinct
bird
for her
collection
. The
male
passenger
pigeon
is
dark
brown
with a
copper-colored
breast
and
stands
7
inches
(17.78
cm.)
high
and
is
15
inches
(38.1
cm)
long
from its
head
to its
tailfeathers
.
Passenger
pigeons
were
once
the
most
numerous
species
of
bird
in
North
America
and
provided
a
seemingly
endless
supply
of
meat
,
fat
, and
feathers
to
early
settlers
.
Contemporary
observers
described
migrating
flocks
of
passenger
pigeons
as
blackening
the
skies
due
to their
large
numbers
.
Later
in the
century
,
commercial
hunting
of
passenger
pigeons
became
popular
. The
growth
of the
railroads
promoted
pigeon
hunting
,
since
the
trains
could
transport
pigeon
meat
to
major
markets
with
no
danger
of
spoilage
. By the
late
1880s
, the
decline
in the
passenger
pigeon
population
became
irreversible
.
It
is
now
extinct
.
Date of Original
1882
circa
Source
Natural history specimen(s)
Submitting Institution
Portsmouth Public Library
Rights
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StillImage
File Name
Om128_620666_001.tif
Image Height
1138
Image Width
1699
File Size
563.65 KB
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