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Sadly£¬the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing£®Where the birds were most abundant£¬people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands£®Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain£¬waited until pigeons had settled to feed£¬then threw large nets over them£¬taking hundreds at a time£®The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants£®
By the closing decades of the 19th century£¬the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans'need for wood£¬which scattered £¨ÇýÉ¢£© the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north£¬where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline£®Soon the great flocks were gone£¬never to be seen again£®
In 1897£¬the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons£¬but by then£¬no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10years£®The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County£¬Ohio£¬in 1900£®For a time£¬a few birds survived under human care£®The last of them£¬known affectionately as Martha£¬died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1£¬1914£®
24£®In the 18th and early 19th centuries£¬passenger pigeonsD£®
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26£®What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons£¿C
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27£®What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan£¿B
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