A feathered river across the sky : the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction / Joel Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Joel (Joel R.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Passenger pigeon.

Extinct birds.

Extinct animals.

Physical Description:

xiii, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Passenger pigeon's flight to extinction

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Summary:

Naturalist Joel Greenberg relates how the pigeons' propensity to nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting market and recreational hunting. His cautionary tale provides a close look at what happens when species and natural resources are not harvested sustainably.

Contents:

Life of the wanderer

My blood shall be your blood : indians and passenger pigeons

A legacy of awe

Pigeons as provisions to pigeons as products

Means of destruction

Profiles in killing

The tempest was spent : the last great nestings

Flights to the finish

Martha and her kin : the captive flocks

Extinction and beyond

A passenger pigeon miscellany.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-274) and index.

ISBN:

9781620405345

1620405342

OCLC:

849210339