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The passenger pigeon:

Not very long ago, there used to be millions and millions of passenger pigeons in North America. They got their name because they often used to travel to new places to look for food. They flew in large flocks. These flocks were sometimes so big they blocked out the sun. Passenger pigeons lived in oak and beech forests. In the 1850s people began to cut down the forests to make way for farms. They used the wood for building and burning. The birds nesting places were destroyed. In addition hunters killed millions of nesting passenger pigeons each year for food. The passenger pigeons only laid one egg each spring , so they couldn't have enough babies to replace the birds being killed. The last passenger pigeon was seen in 1914.

 

 

 

 

 

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