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 ...

A rare pigeon species was documented for the first time in 140 years after a group of scientists and conservationists got photos of a black-naped pheasant-pigeon on Fergusson Island, a small ...

On 1 September 1914, a passenger pigeon called Martha died at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. She was the last known member of her species. Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons ...

A flock of passenger pigeons reported in Ontario in 1866 was described as being a mile wide and 300 miles long and taking 14 hours to pass overhead. And though their species enjoyed a long, long life ...