Meaning of passenger pigeon | Babel Free

Definitions

A bird of the extinct species †Ectopistes migratorius, formerly endemic to North America.

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Examples

“Martha was a remnant of a species that had once dominated North America; it is estimated that there were as many as four billion – yes, billion – passenger pigeons when the Europeans arrived.”

“Revive & Restore, a branch of the Long Now Foundation, is currently attempting to de-extinct the passenger pigeon in a project called The Great Comeback.”

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