This organization has compiled a mass of records and citations of PAPI observations in all 50 states (thanks Joel Greenberg). You can click on each state and be astonished, or unpleasantly surprised. Extinction is forever.
This quote is from the treatment for MN: "The last record for the state, as mentioned above, was the nest, male, and egg taken in June 21, 1895 in Minneapolis. It is, in fact, the last nest and egg known of a wild bird from anywhere. Both the nest and the egg are on display at the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota." This quote is from the treatment for WI: "The largest recorded nesting of Passenger Pigeons in U.S. history took place in central Wisconsin in 1871. A conservative estimate of the nesting area was 850 square miles, and population estimates put the number of nesting pigeons at 136 million. Many recorded descriptions of this nesting exist in historic articles, books and other publications." see also the speech given by Aldo Leopold. <http://passengerpigeon.org/> http://passengerpigeon.org/ gordon andersson st paul ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
