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  title info:
    title: From billions to none
    sub title: the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction
  name:
    name part: Mrazek, David
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer,
    role:
      role term: screenwriter.
  name:
    name part: Greenberg, Joel (Joel R.)
    role:
      role term: producer,
    role:
      role term: screenwriter.
  name:
    name part: Nowak, Mike
    role:
      role term: narrator.
  name:
    name part: Waubansee Productions
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: GanteÌ#x81; Ltd
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentaries and Factual Films
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Nonfiction films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  genre: Films autres que de fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (58 min.)
  abstract: From Billions to None tells the compelling, little-known story of the rapid extinction of the once abundant passenger pigeon, and explores its lessons for today with the alarming decline of many species worldwide. These sleek and beautiful birds darkened entire skies, like nothing in existence today. Yet in a matter of decades human activity drove the species from billions to extinction. For millennia, the passenger pigeon was the most abundant bird in North America, and likely the world. Then as its forest habitats were cut down for lumber, it was hunted to extinction both as a cheap source of protein and as targets for sport shooting. By 1912, after a nationwide search, not a single bird could be found living in the wild. The last pigeon in captivity died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Naturalist and author Joel Greenberg is the film's guide, explaining the biology of the passenger pigeon and taking us through the birds' tragic history. In one scene, Greenberg visits a nature preserve in Wisconsin that was once the largest ever passenger pigeon nesting site, where an estimated 136 million birds nested in an area equal in size to 37 Manhattan Islands. Through computer animation, the film recreates the breathtaking natural phenomenon of massive flocks of passenger pigeons. One animated sequence recreates a passenger pigeon flock estimated by John James Audubon to be at least one billion birds. In 1813, while in Kentucky, Audubon wrote, 'The light of the noonday was obscured as by an eclipse. The pigeons passed in undiminished number, and continued to do so for three days.' The film briefly explores the De-Extinction movement, a controversial attempt to bring back extinct species, and features an interview with the young scientist who has been tasked to bring back the lost bird. The film also highlights scientists like Dr. Boris Worm at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, whose research is raising alarm about other species, including sharks. According to the Interna…
  target audience: adult
  note: directed by David Mrazek ; produced by David Mrazek, Joel Greenberg ; written by David Mrazek, Joel Greenberg ; a Waubansee Productions film, in association with Gante Ltd.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2017).
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Passenger pigeon
  subject:
    topic: Extinct birds
  subject:
    topic: Tourte voyageuse
  subject:
    topic: Oiseaux disparus
  subject:
    topic: Extinct birds
  subject:
    topic: Passenger pigeon
  classification: 598.6/5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
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  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 170303
    record change date: 20241201225808.5
    record identifier: in00005540248
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng