The Ninth Upland Game Bird

The Ninth Upland Game BirdIn 1914, just 52 years ago, in Cincinnati, the last passenger pigeon died. It was a female, and her life in the zoo kept extant for 14 years after the final sighting of free birds the most numerous game-bird species ever known. Long before that -- I don't suppose anybody knows or cares just when -- settlers from Europe had begun to import rock doves, distantly related birds of about the same size, which we now call domestic pigeons. They were brought in for various uses...