The passenger pigeon lacked this spot. When rising in flight, the mourning dove makes a whistling sound with its wings, whereas the passenger pigeon did not. The juveniles-of the mourning dove and ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

The passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, were handsome medium-sized birds who raised their families in huge, social colonies throughout the eastern United States.

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 ...

But on September 1, 1914, the last of the passenger pigeon's kind — a 29-year-old bird named Martha — died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden.

Century After Extinction, Passenger Pigeons Remain Iconic—And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back. The 100th anniversary of the death of Martha, last of her kind, finds biologists dreaming of ...

The passenger pigeon, native to the Midwest, was an iconic species. In his 1955 book, Madison native Bill Schorger documented how their flocks, often containing millions of birds, would dive into ...

PETOSKEY — In 1914, the very last known passenger pigeon died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Now, 109 years later, passenger pigeons are most famously known as a species driven to extinction.

State Rep. Perry Stambaugh, R-Perry, introduced House Bill 400 to designate the passenger pigeon as the official extinct species of Pennsylvania. Stambaugh said the passenger pigeon, once the most ...

The passenger pigeon lacked this spot. When rising in flight, the mourning dove makes a whistling sound with its wings, whereas the passenger pigeon did not. The juveniles-of the mourning dove and ...