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What We've Lost
In the late 1800s, some people tried
adj. against the law; not allowed by law
to make killing passenger pigeons illegal.
illegal
Unfortunately, they were too late. In
1914, the last passenger pigeon, a bird
named Martha, died in a zoo in
Cincinnati, Ohio. The species whose
numbers had once been in the billions Check
was gone forever. Why did farmers shoot passenger
pigeons?
They shot the pigeons to protect their
crops. Unit 11 | What We've Lost
