Posts Tagged ‘Passenger Pigeon’

The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller From Princeton University Press: At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a […]

On 1 September 1914, between midday and 1 pm, in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio, a pigeon breathed her last, and with her died her species. – Mark Avery, A Message from Martha And thus, the Passenger Pigeon became extinct 100 years ago. You’re probably already aware of this, as much has […]

A Message from Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery From Bloomsbury: September 1st, 2014 sees the centenary of one of the best-documented extinctions in history the demise of the Passenger Pigeon. From being the commonest bird on the planet 50 years earlier, the species became extinct with […]