Free events in June are planned to teach about the species’ extinction and foster better conservation practices for future ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. The last passenger pigeon on Earth ...

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 ...

2014 is the year of the passenger pigeon. Not that any passenger pigeons are around to appreciate this fact: the last one, Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo exactly a century ago, on September 1, ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- A hundred years ago, Martha died and an environmental cautionary tale was born. On Sept. 1, 1914, Martha, a passenger pigeon, fell off her perch at the Cincinnati Zoo and dropped dead.

It is often said that the passenger pigeon, once among the most abundant birds in North America, traveled in flocks so enormous that they darkened the skies for hours as they passed. The idea that the ...

The history of the extinct passenger pigeon has a local footnote. In 1895 the last nest and egg of that species to be found in the wild were collected near Minneapolis, exact location unknown. This ...

For the first time this century, one of the world’s most famous bird specimens has come out of storage for public display. Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, is posed on a branch amid a small ...

Petoskey played its own small part in the extinction of the passenger pigeon in the early 1900s, and that history will be memorialized with a new monument this summer. Petoskey City Manager Shane Horn ...

Introduction.--My boyhood among the pigeons.--The passenger pigeon, from "American ornithology", by A. Wilson.--The passenger pigeon, from "Ornithological biography", by J.J. Audubon.--As James ...

The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) once migrated in flocks of 3 to 5 billion, numbers great enough to black out the sky, but by 1914, the last of its kind, named “Martha,” passed away at ...

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 ...