hypothetically, ..

[OwlCapone]

What if someone out there is raising a whole load of 20 passenger pigeons, snce they are super rare how much could they be sold for? Or will the government just take them by force and keep them in a zoo with professionals.,,, what would happen?

[GAMEchief]

What makes you think the government can just take someone's carrier pigeons?

[Use]

I'll applaud IRL if you ever make a thread that makes sense

[Enjoi]

Can i have one

[OwlCapone]

how much is a prehistoric extict bird worth? can they be sold or wa

[C0FFINCASE]

how much is a prehistoric extict bird worth? can they be sold or wa

1st they aren't prehistoric. They existed in the 20th century.
2nd any thing is only worth what someone is willing to pay.
3rd If you had such a bird and went to market with it while residing in the US it is likely the US government would seize the bird under the Protection of Endangered Species. Then again no one would believe you had such a bird any way.

[GAMEchief]

3rd If you had such a bird and went to market with it while residing in the US it is likely the US government would seize the bird under the Protection of Endangered Species. Then again no one would believe you had such a bird any way.

Considering it's prehistoric, I think it's safe to say it's a fossil and not endangered.

[C0FFINCASE]

Considering it's prehistoric, I think it's safe to say it's a fossil and not endangered.

Or it's not prehistoric or a fossil. It is believe to be extinct, but we also find new species and supposedly extinct stuff all the time.


The Passenger Pigeon or Wild Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct North American bird. The species lived in enormous migratory flocks until the early 20th century, when hunting and habitat destruction led to its demise.[2] One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mi (1.5 km) wide and 300 mi (500 km) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds. That number, if accurate, would likely represent a large fraction of the entire population at the time.

Passenger Pigeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[GAMEchief]

I assumed we weren't talking about carrier pigeons anymore.

[Vesparia]

Are we going to start talking about illegally breeding peregrine falcons and selling them off to kids who want to hunt in the wild and need a bit of aid getting started living off the land?

[C0FFINCASE]

I assumed we weren't talking about carrier pigeons anymore.

We never were. OP said Passenger, I think you misread or assumed they were the same.

[GAMEchief]

I assumed we weren't talking about passenger pigeons either. I assumed he was talking about some form of prehistoric bird, a new topic altogether.