@Canadian_Eh In Quebec tourtière is named after the tourte, or the passenger pigeon. Dozens could be killed with a single shotgun blast, so barrels and barrels of this cheap meat was sent east. Now, the tourtière at holidays is made with other meat...
Why Did The Passenger Pigeon Go Extinct?
Although passenger pigeons were the victims of human hunters, we still don’t understand precisely how a species can decline from billions to none within a period of fifty years
#birds #ornithology #extinction #PassengerPigeon #ecology #genetics #hunting https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct
Why Did The Passenger Pigeon Go Extinct?
Although passenger pigeons were the victims of human hunters, we still don’t understand precisely how a species can decline from billions to none within a period of fifty years
#birds #ornithology #extinction #PassengerPigeon #ecology #genetics #hunting https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct
Why Did The Passenger Pigeon Go Extinct?
Although passenger pigeons were the victims of human hunters, we still don’t understand precisely how a species can decline from billions to none within a period of fifty years
#birds #ornithology #extinction #PassengerPigeon #ecology #genetics #hunting https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct
#MarkAvery reminds us that it’s 111 years today since the extinction of the last passenger pigeon, a species that just a few decades earlier was the commonest bird on the planet.
https://markavery.info/2025/09/01/passenger-pigeon-day-111-years-gone/
🕊️ RIP Martha (1914)
The last passenger pigeon died today in a Cincinnati zoo.
Once, their flocks blackened the sky—if the stories be true.
Now, they’re only stories.
Another casualty of human excess.
Another ghost we made.
📎 [Illustration by Frank Bond, 1920]
🔗 https://www.audubon.org/news/the-story-martha-last-passenger-pigeon?utm_source=chatgpt.com
A message from Martha by Mark Avery - review, published by Bloomsbury Books
“This absorbing book is an engaging and wistful, yet measured, chronicle about the tragic loss of one very special, iconic, species, the passenger pigeon.”
review by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#books #BookReview #MustRead #ornithology #birds #PassengerPigeon #extinction #ExtinctSpecies https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/a-message-from-martha-by-mark-avery
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