The extinction of the passenger pigeon is a poignant example of what happens when the interests of man clash with the interests of nature. It is believed that this species once constituted 25 to 40 ...

The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s, billions of these birds were flying over the forests of eastern North America. Yet in just half a century, they’d ...

In 1813, passenger pigeons were in abundance across the United States. Flocks of them used to fill the skies. Some scientists thought that they once made up 25 to 40 percent of all birds in the ...

Additionally, the story has been updated with information regarding the joint forestry experiment and the positive potential for passenger pigeon de-extinction from Revive & Restore. The passenger ...

DESCRIPTION: The passenger pigeon was much larger than the somewhat similarly plumed mourning dove. Adapted for speed and maneuverability in flight, it had a small head and neck; long tail; long, ...

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Now, a genomic analysis of conserved pigeon specimens sheds light on how the extinction occurred. Researchers were able to show that the passenger pigeon population did not have much genetic diversity ...

Passenger pigeon genome shows effects of natural selection in a huge population University of California - Santa Cruz Journal Science Funder Revive and Restore Catalyst Science Fund, Gordon and ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Auk Vol. 28, No. 3, Jul., 1911 Other Early Records of the Passenger Pig... Other Early Records of the Passenger Pigeon This is the metadata section.

By the 1890s, the Passenger Pigeon had almost completely disappeared. The last captive Passenger Pigeon, named "Martha," died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden in 1924, 100 years ago today.

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, passenger pigeon, and others. Scientists worldwide are engaged in these ...

The noble passenger pigeon's common name comes from the French term pigeon de passage, referring to the massive migrations of these birds across the sky. A flock of passenger pigeons reported in ...