The Passenger Pigeon (eBook)

Errol Fuller (Autor)

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2014
184 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5220-8 (ISBN)

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A haunting, beautifully illustrated memorial to this iconic extinct birdAt the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end of the century, the most common bird in North America had vanished from the wild. In 1914, the last known representative of her species, Martha, died in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoo.This stunningly illustrated book tells the astonishing story of North America's Passenger Pigeon, a bird species that-like the Tyrannosaur, the Mammoth, and the Dodo-has become one of the great icons of extinction. Errol Fuller describes how these fast, agile, and handsomely plumaged birds were immortalized by the ornithologist and painter John James Audubon, and captured the imagination of writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain. He shows how widespread deforestation, the demand for cheap and plentiful pigeon meat, and the indiscriminate killing of Passenger Pigeons for sport led to their catastrophic decline. Fuller provides an evocative memorial to a bird species that was once so important to the ecology of North America, and reminds us of just how fragile the natural world can be.Published in the centennial year of Martha's death, The Passenger Pigeon features rare archival images as well as haunting photos of live birds.

Autor

Errol Fuller is an acclaimed artist and writer, and a world authority on bird and animal extinction. His many books include Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record (Princeton), Extinct Birds, and Dodo: From Extinction to Icon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2014
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • American Museum of Natural History • American Ornithologists' Union • anatomy • Anecdote • Another Place • artistic merit • Bearded vulture • bird • Bird Anatomy • bird kill • bird migration • Book • British Birds (magazine) • british institution • British Library • Calculation • canker • Carl Linnaeus • Carte de Visite • Cat • Charles Otis Whitman • Charles R. Knight • Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden • Color Photography • Columbidae • Common wood pigeon • Convex and Concave • Coracoid • Cotton Mather • Decoy • deforestation • Denver Museum of Nature and Science • Diplodocus • Dodo • Edgar Degas • Eldey • engraving • Eskimo curlew • Extinct Birds (book) • Facsimile • Fine Art • Finn Salomonsen • Flight feather • Fresh water • fungus • Furcula • Great Auk • Human • Illustration • Illustrator • Ivory-billed woodpecker • John A. Ruthven • John James Audubon • Kakapo • Labrador duck • Last of the Curlews • Louis Agassiz Fuertes • Mark Catesby • massachusetts bay colony • Mathew Brady • mezzotint • Monograph • Mourning Dove • Museum of Science (Boston) • newspaper • North America • Ornithology • Passenger pigeon • Pehr Kalm • peregrine falcon • Pink pigeon • Postcard • Publication • rib cage • Rock dove • Samuel de Champlain • Scapula • scratchboard • Simon Pokagon • Snare Drum • Sternum • Surname • Tarsometatarsus • taxidermy • The Birds of America • The First Man • The Telling • Trichomoniasis • Tuberculosis • Vegetable • warbler • watercolor painting • wildlife • Wildlife Art • Wisconsin Historical Society • Wood frog • woodpecker • woolly mammoth • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5220-X / 140085220X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5220-8 / 9781400852208