Passenger Pigeon Photo Postcard, 1928

Passenger Pigeon, 1928

The image depicts a black-and-white photograph of an extinct passenger pigeon perched on a branch, accompanied by white handwritten text that provides historical information about the species. The text notes that Alexander Wilson, a pioneering American ornithologist, once estimated that the population of these birds was a staggering 2,230,272,000. This photograph serves as a poignant reminder of the species' once-vast numbers and its subsequent extinction. The bottom of the image credits "Nature Magazine," issued in November 192