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 ...

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 ...

From 1909 to 1912, the American Ornithologists' Union offered $1,500 to anyone ... The main wintering sites stretched from Arkansas to North Carolina south to the uplands of the Gulf Coast states. The ...

RANGE: The passenger pigeon was found across most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains. It originally bred from the southern parts of eastern and central Canada south to eastern Kansas, ...

Yet today no passenger pigeon lives. What happened in a span of just half a century? As technological innovations brought European settlers deeper into North America in the mid-19th century ...