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Pope Excommunicates Entire Species of Birds
| replyNo, seriously:
Due to the large size of their flocks, the [passenger pigeons] were seen as a threat to farmers. In fact, in 1703 the Catholic bishop of Quebec actually excommunicated the entire species.
No word on what the response was from the passenger pigeon community, other than eventually going extinct.
Posted by on Apr 6, 2009 at 05:44am
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