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DodogamaRayBrst posted...

I remember reading that the passenger pigeon likely would have gone extinct even without overhunting because the very concept of American expansion, industrialization and city building was too destructive to their evolutionary adaptation

No clue if that's actually true. Seems kind of farfetched considering the sheer number of them and the size of Amerikaland.

The passenger would very likely be around if it was never hunted on a mass scale. The population would likely be much lower though than its peak however.