Jackson-Dubuque County IA Archives News.....Passenger Pigeons Roost May 26, 1843
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Dubuque Miners' Express May 26, 1843
Dubuque Miners' Express, reprinted in the Vermont Phoenix, May 26, 1843 

The following account of a Western wild Pigeon Roost is from the Dubuque 
Miners' Express: 
"There is an immense Pigeon Roost in the forks of the Maquoketa river in 
Jackson County, such as has never been seen in this country before. It is 
three miles long, and a half a mile in width. There can be no estimate made of 
their numbers. Their roosting places are almost a mile distant from their 
nests and feeding places, being three in number, and each covering a section 
of land; and in passing to and fro they darken the air with their number; they 
break down young trees with their weight and hundreds are killed by getting 
entangled in the falling limbs and branches. The people kill them with clubs; 
and their noise is so loud that when a gun is fired amongst them, the report 
cannot be heard; and a person can stand in one place and shoot all day, the 
birds returning as soon as you can load. They are building their nests, and 
the people are alarmed, lest they may destroy their crops." 




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