Volunteers from Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue then discovered the trapped bird ... that the pigeon is now stable and doing much better. It's going to take some time to improve their feather ...

Audubon—pioneer, frontier merchant, peerless bird artist and the creator of The ... the last passenger pigeon died in a drab cage at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. Her name was Martha.

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 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 ...

In the 19th century, the passenger pigeon may have been the most abundant bird in the entire world, with a population believed to have approached 4 billion individuals. As they rested in their forest ...