Passenger Pigeon

The passenger pigeon needs no protection. Wonderfully prolific, having the vast forests of the North as its breeding grounds, traveling hundreds of miles in search of food, it is here today and elsewhere tomorrow, and no ordinary destruction can lessen them, or be missed from the myriads that are yearly produced." Report of a select committee of the Ohio Senate in 1857 on a bill proposed to protect Passenger Pigeons. One of the most noted of extinct animals, passenger pigeons were reduced from numbers in the hundreds of millions for food.