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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 by Scott Rank, PhD

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 by Scott Rank, PhD. In America's first hundred years, the animal you were most l...

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

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

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