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   ocr: were slaughtered in vast numbers with guns, nets, and by other means. With the extension of the railroad in the 1850s, the pigeons could easily be shipped to city markets and were sold for as little as a penny each in New York. They were even used to feed swine. Rumors that passenger pigeons might still be alive, either in their old haunts or elsewhere, are unfortunately wishful thinking. The passen- ger pigeon became uncommon by 1880 and had vanished from the wild by about 1906. On September 1, 1914, at one o'clock in the afternoon, a passenger pigeon named Martha died peacefully of old age a ...