Odisha’s carrier pigeon service still maintains a fleet of around 150 birds, though their purpose has grown increasingly ...

After darkening the skies of North America for 20,000 years, the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction. It changed our ...

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 ...

When one resource disappears, we all suffer. This is why we must recognize that nature is our most important ally in our fight against climate change.

The United States used to belong to passenger pigeons. The highly successful birds traversed the continent in flocks of hundreds of millions, impervious to predators from their sheer numbers alone.

George the Pinta Island tortoise and Martha the passenger pigeon achieved fame as ‘endlings’ – the last individuals of their species. Their passing is tragic, but can their fate perhaps help us to ...

Coyotes, on the other hand, have displayed a pronounced resiliency in regions, according to the findings based on extensive ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Auk Vol. 28, No. 4, Oct., 1911 Other Early Records of the Passenger Pig... Other Early Records of the Passenger Pigeon (Concluded) This is the ...

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 ...