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Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

I'm reading a book right now that describes how people would light sulfur under the pigeons' roosts at night and then come in the morning to collect the bodies or devise huge sky nets to catch and kill the swarm of birds. Mass torture of passenger pigeons in new ways seemed to become its own sport.

Is it A Feathered River Across the Sky by chance? I highly recommend the book if you interested in passenger pigeons, it is insanely detailed. Probably boring and too much for an average reader, but perfect for someone who can't enough about passenger pigeons.

Also, the author discovered there were at least 2 more wild birds that lived on past the 1900 Ohio passenger pigeon. One was killed in 1901 in Illinois, and the body still exists in local college. Another was shot in Indiana in 1902. The is no true conclusive proof for this one, but is likely true since a few decades after he shot the bird there is correspondence between him and another person about the the bird and the shooter regrets that the bird rotted away in his attic and he threw it out. Very unlikely someone was be lying when writing such a letter like that.