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Meanings of passenger pigeon in English
Russian
странствующие голуби Portuguese
pombo passageiro Spanish
paloma migradora Catalan
ectopistes migratorius 
Extinct species of North American pigeon, most abundant bird on Earth before extinction.
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Examples for "ectopistes migratorius"
Examples for "ectopistes migratorius"
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These combined characters are not found in any wild pigeon besides C. livia.
2
Take the case of the wild pigeon, a subject that especially delights Mr. Darwin.
3
Truly, Tayoga, this wild pigeon has a most savory taste!
4
Two days afterwards I shot a wild pigeon in a cleft high up behind the palace.
5
I have often thrust the wild pigeon, freshly killed, into my game-bag, glittering like an opal.
Usage of passenger pigeon in English
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Then there's the fate of the Tasmanian tiger and the passenger pigeon.
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Suddenly Jason was famous as the kid who'd cloned the passenger pigeon.
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Parrakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, passenger pigeon, whooping crane, pinnated grouse; bison, elk, beaver.
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Remember the fate of the passenger pigeon and the American bison.
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He'd spent a third of his 'college fund' on eight passenger pigeon chicks.
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For his biology project, Jason decided to resurrect the passenger pigeon.
7
The heath hen could not be brought back, neither could the passenger pigeon.
8
Humans hunted New Zealand's moas and the passenger pigeon to extinction.
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Felt like the fellow who shot the last passenger pigeon.
10
For his biology semester project he chose the passenger pigeon.
11
It describes the existence and disappearance of the passenger pigeon.
12
Well remembered also by the long-flight passenger pigeon, coming into the land for the mast.
13
She may have served it with passenger pigeon $common fare in those days.
14
Whooping crane, long-billed curlew, Hudsonian godwit, passenger pigeon; bison, elk, mule deer, mountain sheep.-(W.B.
15
The passenger pigeon is a dead species.
16
But while the history of the passenger pigeon of North America is extant such argument carries no weight.
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