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When did the passenger pigeon become extinct in the U.S.?

August 5, 2020December 5, 2011 by Pamela Landy

Once common in U.S. skies and hunted widely as cheap food, the last known passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914.

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