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Passenger Pigeons Once Numbered in the Billions and Blotted Out the Skies for Days. They Went Extinct in 30 Years.

History Unplugged Podcast | American History, World History, World War 2, U.S. Presidents, Civil War by Support

Apr 30, 202643:56Society & Culture

In America's first hundred years, the animal you were most likely to see was a passenger pigeon. And you saw a lot of them. Flocks were so numerous they literally blotted out the sun for days and their combined weight sn...

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Passenger Pigeons Once Numbered in the Billions and Blotted Out the Skies for Days. They Went Extinct in 30 Years. is an episode from History Unplugged Podcast | American History, World History, World War 2, U.S. Presidents, Civil War by Su...

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Published Apr 30, 2026, 43:56 long, audio available.