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passenger pigeons · Ectopistes migratorius
three to five billion. the most numerous bird on earth. flocks a mile wide that took hours to pass. shot, netted and shipped by the barrel. the last one, martha, died in cincinnati zoo on the first of september, 1914.
method Schorger 1955; Smithsonian.
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
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or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
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how this number is built
- method
- Schorger 1955; Smithsonian.
- range
- 3–5 billion pre-decline
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- none material.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-101 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0