Pidgeons are mostly city dwellers that fly in flocks to mooch off of passengers going on their busy ways in a metropolis. Did you know there are and were pidgeons in Alabama's wild that took care of themselves amongst other birds? There was an interesting bird called the passenger pidgeon that was a wild bird. It had a long neck and an orange belly.The bird was very small and numerous. The flocks were seen to be diminishing as early as the 1880's. In Henry County 1909, they were found in a small flock. There was a The bird now is on the state of Alabama's Endangered animal list.
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Chipperwood Bird Observatory says this bird was one of the most numerous birds on earth. The bird was also known as the Rocky Mountain Locust. The bird was cheap food to dwellers during antebellum years and through the great depression. Through the nature of this article, the bird must have diminished because of predators like people and larger birds.
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