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 ...

When Dutch sailors first landed on the uninhabited Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in the late 16th century, the dodo’s ...

Imagine for a second that you’re asked to deliver a eulogy for an animal species perched on the brink of extinction. What on earth would you say? What could you say? That’s the situation the actor ...

The Owen Gromme passenger pigeons prints donated by Bud Gussel to schools and libraries around the state are ready to be delivered. Accompanying the prints will be an explanation of how the bird, once ...

Introduction.--My boyhood among the pigeons.--The passenger pigeon, from "American ornithology", by A. Wilson.--The passenger pigeon, from "Ornithological biography", by J.J. Audubon.--As James ...

While the ivory-billed woodpecker has attracted a lot of attention in the 21st century due to reported sightings, it was not been the only Arkansas-dwelling bird that went extinct during the 20th ...

In 1810, 24-year-old attorney Henry Marie Brackenridge traveled down the Ohio River to Ste. Genevieve, Mo., and what was still known as the French Illinois Country. Upon passing Louisville, his party ...

One day, two years ago, Luis Valdez found a baby pigeon on the ground outside of L&R Auto Service, a mechanic shop he owns in ...

From a Delta Air Lines passenger’s account of a flight on March 24, as reported by NBC News. When I boarded at Minneapolis–St. Paul tonight, I overheard another passenger tell a flight attendant there ...