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  1. @Canadian_Eh In Quebec tourtière is named after the tourte, or the passenger pigeon. Dozens could be killed with a single shotgun blast, so barrels and barrels of this cheap meat was sent east. Now, the tourtière at holidays is made with other meat...

  2. A message from Martha by Mark Avery - review, published by Bloomsbury Books

    “This absorbing book is an engaging and wistful, yet measured, chronicle about the tragic loss of one very special, iconic, species, the passenger pigeon.”

    review by @grrlscientist via #Substack

    #books #BookReview #MustRead #ornithology #birds #PassengerPigeon #extinction #ExtinctSpecies grrlscientist.substack.com/p/a

  3. A message from Martha by Mark Avery - review, published by Bloomsbury Books

    “This absorbing book is an engaging and wistful, yet measured, chronicle about the tragic loss of one very special, iconic, species, the passenger pigeon.”

    review by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

    #books #BookReview #MustRead #ornithology #birds #PassengerPigeon #extinction #ExtinctSpecies grrlscientist.substack.com/p/a

  4. Talia Greene, Precarious Balance, 2015, archival pigment prints. Currently on view in Natural History at Past Present Projects Gallery. Open Thurs-Sat 12-5 at the Bok Building in South Philly.

    #ContemporaryArt #Ecosystems #BirdsInArt #Birds #ExtinctSpecies #PassengerPigeon #Philadelphia #Philly #Galleries #ArtGalleries #Exhibition