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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...