A Feathered River Across the sky: The Passenger Pigeon'S Flight to Extinction [Audiobook] download free by Joel Greenberg
- Listen audiobook: A Feathered River Across the sky: The Passenger Pigeon'S Flight to Extinction
- Author: Joel Greenberg
- Release date: 2014/3/7
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9781620405345
- Rating: 9.92 of 10
- Votes: 223
- Review by: Pearl Earl
- Review rating: 8.58 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/2
- Duration: 3H45M48S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, TTA, WMA, OPUS, WAV, MPEG4, Apple Lossless (compression CBC, RAR, ZIP, 7-ZIP, GZ)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M38S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other sound. Feeding flocks would appear as 'a blue wave four or five feet high rolling toward you.'John James Audubon, impressed by their speed and agility, said a lone passenger pigeon streaking through the forest 'passes like a thought.' How prophetic-for although a billion pigeons crossed the skies 80 miles from Toronto in May of 1860, little more than fifty years later passenger pigeons were extinct. The last of the species, Martha, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914.As naturalist Joel Greenberg relates in gripping detail, the pigeons' propensity to nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting market and recreational hunting. The spread of railroads and telegraph lines created national markets that allowed the birds to be pursued relentlessly. Passenger pigeons inspired awe in the likes of Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, and others, but no serious effort was made to protect the species until it was way too late. Greenberg's beautifully written story of the passenger pigeon provides a cautionary tale of what happens when species and natural resources are not harvested sustainably.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Endangered Species & Extinction Of Species, Ecological Science, The Biosphere, Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching
- Download servers: BitShare, Microsoft OneDrive, pyget, Mediafire, Gett, FreakShare. Compressed in CBC, RAR, ZIP, 7-ZIP, GZ
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 18.08 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x26.92mm
- Weight: 577g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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