In 1813, passenger pigeons were in abundance across the United States. Flocks of them used to fill the skies. Some scientists thought that they once made up 25 to 40 percent of all birds in the ...

The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s, billions of these birds were flying over the forests of eastern North America. Yet in just half a century, they’d ...

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 film highlights the environmental and public health concerns caused by the uncontrolled growth of the common blue rock pigeon population due to indiscriminate feeding in cities. Uncontrolled ...

The common pigeons present a similar yet appreciably different ranking of infected organs since the relative order for this group probably is: liver, spleen, joints and lungs. The organs most often ...

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 ...