Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-03 | Page 10 | Wild Pigeons Come Back

WILD PIGEONS COME BACK again seen in the catskills and hudson river valley after ab sence of 30 years poughkeepsie N Y john bur roughs the author naturalist has re turned from a trip to sullivan county where he investigated reports that wild pigeons had been recently in that locality he said I 1 have seen the men who saw the birds and have every reason to be aleve that they are telling the truth some of them knew the passenger pi geon in the old days and it Is not likely that all have been mistaken in the identity of the birds seen lately thirty years ago immense flocks of wild pigeons frequented the hudson river valley they disappeared sud denly and it was supposed that they had been exterminated by ruthless slaughter the sequence of events in dicatos however that they were driven away and sought new feeding and resting grounds in other parts of the globe perhaps u the southern part of south america