If you get Audubon magazine, good for you. The May-June issue has a good article about the end of the passenger pigeon; the start of bird conservation laws; and Revive and Restore, a plan to reconstruct the PAPI genotype from band-tailed pigeon.
The last wild bird was killed in Ohio in 1900; the last zoo bird died at Cincinnati zoo in 1914; the Lacey Act was passed in 1900. (you get more photos with the magazine). "In 1871 their great communal nesting sites had covered 850 square miles of Wisconsin's sandy oak barrens--- 136 million breeding adults." http://www.audubonmagazine.org/articles/birds/why-passenger-pigeon-went-exti nct ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
