Passenger Pigeon
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Passenger Pigeons were about 32 cm (13 in.) long.
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Passenger Pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus)
Status Extinct. Formerly bred.
Remarks It scarcely seems fitting to dismiss this bird with the single word "extinct." Little is now known about this one-time member of our avifauna.
The Passenger Pigeon became extinct in 1914.
Description
Distinguishing Features - Colouration: head and rump, slate blue; back, slate gray; breast, wine red; eye, scarlet. The colors of the male were brighter than those of the female.
THE PASSENGER PIGEON.
[Passenger Pigeon. EXTINCT.]
ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIA, Linn.
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Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) - Duke specimen #B832, from GM Gray's collection, no collection data. Label text "Wild Pigeon, now extinct". Stories of personal experiences with Passenger Pigeons.
Passenger Pigeon Hunting: It was hunted for food, hog feed, as live targets for trap shooting and even sometimes as agricultural fertilizer, and shipped by the boxcar-load to the Eastern cities.
The Passenger Pigeon was once the most abundant bird in North America, with numbers estimated as high as 5 billion birds, but it is now extinct. Its large numbers and its colonial nesting and roosting behavior made killing many birds fairly easy.
Male Passenger Pigeon
Pigeons, doves and dodos.
For the "Réunion Solitaire", see Réunion Sacred Ibis.
The Passenger Pigeon. 71(2): 123-130. [75683] 41. Haines, Donald A.; Johnson, Von J.; Main, William A. 1975. Wildfire atlas of the Northeastern and North Central States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-16. St. Paul, MN: U.S.
Considered very good to eat, the birds were killed by thousands of market hunters, just as the Passenger Pigeon had been years earlier. The curlew's lack of fear and habit of traveling in large flocks made it an easy target.
There was a species of pigeon in North America & Canada called the Passenger pigeon. Flocks were huge, with millions of birds in a flock. They were easy to kill and apparently delicious to eat. Humans killed many, many millions.
Passenger Pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius
The passenger pigeon was a common bird in central and eastern North America. Scientists estimate that the population at one time may have numbered between three and five million birds.
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The belief is probably a confusion that has resulted in similarities between homing pigeons and passenger pigeons, which are an extinct species.
Ectopistes migratorius (Passenger Pigeon)
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Richter, C. H. 1969. The Le Conte's Sparrow in northeastern Wisconsin. Passenger Pigeon 31:275-277.
Robbins, S. 1969. New light on the Le Conte's Sparrow. Passenger Pigeon 31:267-274.
Bird Milk; Brood Patches; Passenger Pigeon
REFERENCES:
Goodwin, 1983; Gutierrez et al., 1975; Leopold et al., 1981.
The passenger pigeon was perhaps the most numerous bird that ever lived, however, billions were wiped out in under 50 years. Explore some of the remaining 300 or so species from the turtle dove and Old World pigeon groups below.
In Europe the Wood Pigeon is commonly shot as a game bird, while Rock Pigeons were originally domesticated as a food species, and many breeds were developed for their meat-bearing qualities. The extinction of the Passenger Pigeon was at least partly ...
 See also: Pigeon, Dove, Swallow, Fly, Sparrow
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