GC4BXR7 Traditional Cache Extinct Animal: Passenger Pigeon
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 05/11/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 16.528 W104° 18.618 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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The most common bird in North America at a point of time, today the Passenger Pigeon is only found in International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) extinct animals list. The Passenger Pigeons, also known as wild pigeons, were found in large migratory flocks containing millions of birds. This bird was a major source of food for the native Indians, as well as European travelers and therefore large-scale hunting was one of the most important factor which led to a drastic decline in their numbers. The first decade of 20th century was marked by rare individual sightings, before it finally became extinct after the last confirmed sighting in 1912.
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10 Logs: Found it 10  

Found it 05/04/2019 By ladditude
The "fourth was with us" on this beautiful Colorado spring day. We visited and found 30 caches, this was one of them. Thanks to all the owners for placing and maintaining these for us to enjoy. It was lovely here today... rolling green grasslands, lots of barns and windmills, and many horses, goats, sheep, even llamas were seen. TFTC SL

Found it 04/26/2019 By gnome_goddess
Tftc!

Found it 03/08/2019 By BearAdair
Snow day, so catching up on logs.

Found this fun little series with animjason while we were in the area. I love impromptu caching adventures.

Thanks imusttravel2000! Logged Extinct Animal: Passenger Pigeon from a ninth galaxy using c:geo!

~ Geocache Find #216 ~

Found it 03/08/2019 By animjason
BearAdair and I weren't doing anything today. We were driving around Parker doing errands when the caching itch hit.

We ended up in this area finding extinct animals, and defeating an alien invasion.

Thanks for the fun. Ended up with 13 finds before it started getting dark.

Thanks imusttravel2000! Logged Extinct Animal: Passenger Pigeon from a ninth galaxy using c:geo!

~ Geocache Find #10333 ~

Found it 03/07/2019 By LostinDenver
Today after grabbing a puzzle cache in Parker, I headed to the plains to grab several caches. During my day I saw two Kestrels (I thought they were Merlins, but they aren't), a Golden Eagle, a Red Tailed Hawk, several deer and a bunch of Magpies. I always wanted a passenger pigeon when I was a kid, but they were long gone.
Sad to see Robesphire's name on the log. RIP.
TFTC!

Found it 07/25/2018 By JCs Girl
I got 38 caches today; enough to earn the final Hidden Creatures World Turtle souvenir, yay! JC had a good time with me today; she's snoozing beside me as I log today's caches. TFTC.

Found it 07/25/2018 By coralhart
Last day for the Hidden Creatures! I need 2 more after this one for the World Turtle! Thanks for the hide! I enjoyed this one.

Found it 05/08/2018 By robespierre50
Headed out this way on a nice day to rack up some caches. Very surprised these containers have been coming apart. thanks for the replacement though, tftc sl.

Found it 05/06/2018 By Cache Dipper
Ditto Reforestgrrl. Used a spare I had in the car

Found it 05/06/2018 By reforestgrrl
Like the previous cachers, we found the container missing its bottom but were not able to locate it on the ground. We suspect the frequent blowing in the wind may loosen it and create this issue. We had a similar container in the geomobile and replaced it with a new log but located it a little lower than the original placement.