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"Pigeons in America" offers an unconventional side quest during this week's 250th anniversary events around Philadelphia.

Martha, the last ever passenger pigeon, will represent Ohio in a new Smithsonian exhibit commemorating America's 250th birthday.

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When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The passenger pigeon. The ...

It is often said that the passenger pigeon, once among the most abundant birds in North America, traveled in flocks so enormous that they darkened the skies for hours as they passed. The idea that the ...

While the ivory-billed woodpecker has attracted a lot of attention in the 21st century due to reported sightings, it was not been the only Arkansas-dwelling bird that went extinct during the 20th ...

Have you heard the heartbreaking story of the last passenger pigeon to ever live? Flocks of this pigeon species were once so dense that they'd block out the sun for days. Yet, a toxic mix of ...