Mymy [1633]DE] turtle dove
Homijmi [1648] pigeon
amimi [1770] a dove
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The Passenger Pigeon was one of the most abundant bird species on earth not long ago. Lenape elder Ohëlëmitakwsi (James Thompson) told how, when he was a boy in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in the 1870s, he saw a flock fly over, and it took almost twenty minutes for them to pass.
They were driven to extinction by uncontrolled commercial hunting for the settlers. The pigeons migration and nesting made them easy to hunt in large numbers. By 1850, several thousand people were employed in the passenger pigeon industry. In New York, one operation alone processed 18,000 pigeons each day in 1855.
In 1914 the last Passenger Pigeon died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Before their extermination, a single flock of passenger pigeons could have two billion birds or more, and there were many flocks in the United States.
