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, but in just half a century, it had gone extinct.

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 ...

By the 1890s, the Passenger Pigeon had almost completely disappeared. The last captive Passenger Pigeon, named "Martha," died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden in 1924, 100 years ago today.

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"You could say we are living in the planet of the chickens." 3- 5bn - the population of the passenger pigeon in the 1800s, now extinct, which is thought to be the most common wild bird in human ...