"The story of the reads like a work of fiction. At the start of the nineteenth century these birds existed in unimaginable numbers — billions upon billions. The species may have made up as much as 40 percent of the bird population of North America. It may even have been the most numerous bird species on the planet. The flocks were so large and dense they blackened the skies, blotted out the sun. But by the century's end it was over; the birds were gone from the wild. By the year 1914 just a single individual (out of all the countless millions) was left. She was called and she lived alone in a cage at the . In September this last representative of her species died, and as a living entity the Passenger Pigeon was no more. Along with the , the , and the , the species had become one of the great icons of ."
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