Nature Done Wright

Environmental Writer Jim O'Neill had a must-read article in The Record yesterday, about the demise a century ago today of the Passenger Pigeon, once the most numerous bird on Earth.

The old lithograph from Frank Leslie's Weekly above, courtesy of the Library of Congress, is of a Passenger Pigeon shooting match in Greenville, NJ, in the 1860s. The two-day match involved the killing of hundreds of birds.

The link is here.

The article accompanying the lithograph follows. The match drew more than 10,000 people, according to the article.