The passenger pigeon made the most rapid disappearance ever known, In the 1800s, it was so common in the USA that flocks of over 2,000 million birds were estimated. By 1900, there were none left in the wild, and the last one died in a zoo in 1914.

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The passenger pigeon made the most rapid disappearance ever known, In the 1800s, it was so common in the USA that flocks of over 2,000 million birds were estimated. By 1900, there were none left in the wild, and the last one died in a zoo in 1914.

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