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Heath hens vanish as last bird on Martha's Vineyard
A 1929 census records the final heath hen on Martha's Vineyard living in scrub oaks near West Tisbury. The bird, the island's last of its kind, frequented the Green farm and boomed in spring while conservation efforts failed to save the species from extinction alongside the passenger pigeon and great auk.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Cincinnati
Martha
Mississippi Valley
Martha's Vineyard
Afartha
New England
Cape Aon
Virginia
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Long Island
Winthrop
Boston
William Brewster
Blasschusetts Game
Martha’s Vineyard
Rod and Gun Club
Alfred O. Gross
Towdoin College
Bis
Durog
State Department of
Martha's Vineyard Island
James Green
West Tisbury
Green Ferm
Etis
Edgartown
Michigan
Robert AL. Wright
Munising
Samuel R. Landes
Traverse City
Wright
Decter Landes
Kokomo
Ind
Indianapolis
Florida
William B. Mershon
Saginaw
America
Fnd
Norman A. Wood
University of Michigan
Terlung
Cadillac
Oden
Emmet
Straits of
Stuckinaw
Upper
Ontario
Irelands
North Atlantic
New World
Fire Island
Iceland
Liendy
Aliteh
Congress