Holocene Extinction Episode 1: The Passenger Pigeons
The passenger pigeon was arguably the most abundant wild bird on the planet, with a migrating flock capable of reaching billions of individuals. Despite their great number, the pigeons went extinct in a brief century, after being subjected to human activities of the European colony.
The passenger pigeons were killed in massive hunts, in a series of events that can be considered as one of the most destructive acts of predation towards a species. The seemingly endless wall of flying birds started to crumble in 1890 and the whole passenger pigeon population collapsed a decade after. The hundred-year-long genocidal hunts ultimately came to an end, as the most senseless and most colossal man-made extinction was written in history.
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