单词	passenger pigeon
释义	passenger pigeon noun : an extinct but formerly abundant North American migratory pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) Illustration of passenger pigeon Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web Also along that trail is a monument to the passenger pigeon, which once blanketed the sky in Wisconsin but went extinct in 1914 due to overhunting and habitat destruction. Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022 It has not been seen since 1988 and is now presumed to have joined the passenger pigeon and the ivorybill. Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 The last wild passenger pigeon was shot dead in Indiana in 1902. Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2021 Estimates say that the passenger pigeon population numbered in the millions—and possibly billions—when the first Europeans began settling in America. Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022 Passenger pigeons may have once been the most numerous birds on the planet, says Ben Novak, a scientist who leads the passenger pigeon project at Revive & Restore. Matt Reynolds, Wired, 9 Feb. 2022 Successive mass slaughters, however, including one at Petoskey, Mich., in 1878, where approximately 50,000 birds were killed each day for nearly five months, reduced the passenger pigeon population from billions to none in a matter of a few decades. Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2021 Like our extinct passenger pigeon, the weight of flocks of queleas landing in a tree can break branches. Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021 Revive & Restore wants to bring back the passenger pigeon to rescue the woodlands of eastern North America, while Eat Just promotes its nuggets as a way to reduce the cruelty, and climate impact, of industrial livestock production. Nathaniel Rich, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use 1772, in the meaning defined above Kids Definition passenger pigeon noun : a North American wild pigeon once common but now extinct
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