Amazing Sights

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Subject:	Amazing Sights
From:	(Colin Dollery)
Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:38:24 +1000

Given the recent discussion regarding spectacles provided by bird
flocks, spare a thought for the passenger pigeon of North America.  With
an estimated population of between 3 and 5 billion individuals in the 17
century, one flock was estimated by Alexander Wilson in 1810 to contain
2 billion odd individuals.  

John Audubon described a flock that took 3 days to pass!

All this, gone for good!

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Colin Dollery
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