Passenger Pigeon

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The Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, was once the most abundant bird in North America. It was driven to extinction by hunting and western expansion in the late 19th and early 20th century, with the last specimen dying in captivity in 1914.

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Lauren McMullen

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The Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, was once the most abundant bird in North America. It was driven to extinction by hunting and western expansion in the late 19th and early 20th century, with the last specimen dying in captivity in 1914.

Passenger Pigeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived from the French word passager, meaning "passing by", due to the migratory habits of the species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct - Audubon

And whether it can, and should, be brought back to life a century after it disappeared.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-pigeon-went-extinct
About Martha, the Last of the Passenger Pigeons - The Guardian

GrrlScientist: This caturday arrived just in time to share a few videos about Martha, the last passenger pigeon known to have lived.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2014/aug/30/about-martha-passenger-pigeon-video
Ectopistes migratorius (Passenger Pigeon)

Find population statistics from IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22690733/0
Passenger Pigeon - Biological Diversity

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.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/passenger_pigeon/
Passenger Pigeon - Extinct Bird - Britannica

Passenger pigeonÂ (Ectopistes migratorius),Â migratory bird hunted to extinction by man. Billions of these birds inhabited eastern North America in the early 1800s; migrating flocks darkened the skies for days.
http://www.britannica.com/animal/passenger-pigeon
The Birds - The New Yorker

Why the passenger pigeon became extinct.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/06/the-birds-4
The Plan to Bring the Iconic Passenger Pigeon Back From Extinction - Wired

Can we bring the extinct passenger pigeon back to life? These scientists have a plan.
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/passenger-pigeon-de-extinction
Century After Extinction, Passenger Pigeons Remain Iconic-And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back

The 100th anniversary of the last of the species finds biologists dreaming of preventing or even reversing extinctions.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140831-passenger-pigeon-martha-deextinction-dna-animals-species/
3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon? - Scientific American

Human actions may have caused the species's populations to grow huge as well as led to its demise
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-billion-to-zero-what-happened-to-the-passenger-pigeon/

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Passenger pigeon Temporal range: 5.33–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Zanclean- Holocene ^[1]

Live female in 1896/98, kept in the aviary of C. O. Whitman
Conservation status
Extinct (1914) (IUCN 3.1)^[2]
Presumed Extinct (1914) (NatureServe)^[3]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	†Ectopistes Swainson, 1827
Species:	† E. migratorius
Binomial name
†Ectopistes migratorius ( Linnaeus, 1766)

Distribution map, with former range in orange and breeding zone in red
Synonyms
Columba migratoria Linnaeus, 1766 Columba canadensis Linnaeus, 1766 Ectopistes migratoria Swainson, 1827

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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Passenger Pigeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived from the French word passager, meaning "passing by", due to the migratory habits of the species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct - Audubon

And whether it can, and should, be brought back to life a century after it disappeared.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2014/why-passenger-pigeon-went-extinct
About Martha, the Last of the Passenger Pigeons - The Guardian

GrrlScientist: This caturday arrived just in time to share a few videos about Martha, the last passenger pigeon known to have lived.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2014/aug/30/about-martha-passenger-pigeon-video
Ectopistes migratorius (Passenger Pigeon)

Find population statistics from IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22690733/0
Passenger Pigeon - Biological Diversity

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.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/passenger_pigeon/
Passenger Pigeon - Extinct Bird - Britannica

Passenger pigeonÂ (Ectopistes migratorius),Â migratory bird hunted to extinction by man. Billions of these birds inhabited eastern North America in the early 1800s; migrating flocks darkened the skies for days.
http://www.britannica.com/animal/passenger-pigeon
The Birds - The New Yorker

Why the passenger pigeon became extinct.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/06/the-birds-4
The Plan to Bring the Iconic Passenger Pigeon Back From Extinction - Wired

Can we bring the extinct passenger pigeon back to life? These scientists have a plan.
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/passenger-pigeon-de-extinction
Century After Extinction, Passenger Pigeons Remain Iconic-And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back

The 100th anniversary of the last of the species finds biologists dreaming of preventing or even reversing extinctions.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140831-passenger-pigeon-martha-deextinction-dna-animals-species/
3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon? - Scientific American

Human actions may have caused the species's populations to grow huge as well as led to its demise
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-billion-to-zero-what-happened-to-the-passenger-pigeon/

Passenger pigeon Temporal range: 5.33–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Zanclean- Holocene ^[1]

Live female in 1896/98, kept in the aviary of C. O. Whitman
Conservation status
Extinct (1914) (IUCN 3.1)^[2]
Presumed Extinct (1914) (NatureServe)^[3]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	†Ectopistes Swainson, 1827
Species:	† E. migratorius
Binomial name
†Ectopistes migratorius ( Linnaeus, 1766)

Distribution map, with former range in orange and breeding zone in red
Synonyms
Columba migratoria Linnaeus, 1766 Columba canadensis Linnaeus, 1766 Ectopistes migratoria Swainson, 1827

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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Passenger Pigeon

The Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, was once the most abundant bird in North America. It was driven to extinction by hunting and western expansion in the late 19th and early 20th century, with the last specimen dying in captivity in 1914.

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