The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon

Name: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
Uploaded: 2014-09-26T16:17:24Z
Duration: P3305S
Description: Stanley Temple, Professor Emeritus, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, UW-Madison, memorializes the hundredth anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. The last surviving passenger pigeon died in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914. Temple traces the decline from billions of birds to one, to none.

Special | 55m 5s | Video has closed captioning.

Stanley Temple, Professor Emeritus, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, UW-Madison, memorializes the hundredth anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. The last surviving passenger pigeon died in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914. Temple traces the decline from billions of birds to one, to none.

Aired: 08/19/14

Rating: TV-G