Stories extinction the once numerous species of animals and birds repeatedly emphasize the cruelty and folly of mankind.This is evidenced by the destruction of a huge number of wandering pigeons that were in the XVIII and early XIX century the most numerous feathered, not only in the Americas but in the world.
main habitat of this amazing bird is North America.The name of the passenger pigeon got out of the habit flocks move from place to place in search of food.Having eaten all at one site, a pack rose up into the sky, flying in another forest.The birds mainly feed on seeds of trees, acorns, nuts and chestnuts.They settled in huge colonies numbering up to one billion individuals.
One tree nest to a hundred pigeons.Each nest was only one egg, but the birds in one year could raise a few chicks.Their number was so huge that when flights are they covered the sun, and by flapping wings was such a noise that laid the ears.Passenger pigeon had a pretty good speed in flying a mile a minute, that is, cross the ocean and fly to Europe, he could just three days.
In the XIX century the American government decided the extermination of this species.As the pigeon meat was edible hunters immediately found.People came at night to the habitats of birds, cut down trees, killing nestlings and adults.They fired into the accidents of guns and pistols, even a stone thrown into a flock of pigeons killed several.
extinct birds then sold in the markets of two 1 cent per carcass.Their bodies were loaded into wagons and sent to larger cities for sale, people salted pigeons and then fed their pets, made them fertilizer.In the period from 1860 to 1870 the year was wiped out about one million individuals.Then every year the passenger pigeon began to appear less and less, the pack significantly thinned, but bloodthirsty hunters that does not stop.
last representative of this species, was killed in 1899.The Americans came to life at once, seeing what you've done, but it was too late.Passenger pigeon in just a few decades, has been wiped out.The government has promised a reward of one million dollars for a pair of birds detected, but all in vain.
blame themselves do not want anyone been invented so different causes of extinction of this species of birds.On one of them, the pigeons went to the North Pole, but could not withstand the harsh conditions, have died.The second theory is that the rest of the colony of birds went to Australia, but in a way it found a terrible storm, so the whole flock drowned.Perhaps this kind could not exist in small colonies, and therefore died.
Whatever it was, but the blame for the disappearance of wandering pigeons falls squarely on the shoulders of the person.Extinct birds became clear confirmation of greed, brutality, bloodthirstiness and stupidity of people.The man was able in a short time to destroy the most abundant species of birds, and did not even notice the time that they are on the verge of extinction.If it goes on like this, soon the world will be deserted and sad.We ourselves chop the branch on which we sit, and do not even notice it.
