Editorial: A new threat to migratory birds
by The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
May 08, 2018
2 minutes
Passenger pigeons used to be so abundant in North America that migrating flocks blocked out the sun. At one time, the continent was home to an estimated 5 billion of the birds. But by the early part of the 20th century, the number was zero. Human predation had brought about their extinction.
In 1916, Canada and the United States tried to avert such outcomes by entering into the
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