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Great auk, passenger pigeon, heath hen, Carolina paroquet.

Two others, Bachman's warbler, and the ivory billed woodpecker, exist in very tiny populations, and may be added to that unfortunate list. Also, it has been years since the eskimo curlew was sighted, it may well be gone too.

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The dove known as the passenger pigeon. Once numbered around four billion birds in North America.

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