Article: Going down in history.(passenger pigeon and other birds on brink of extinction)

Article: PASSENGER PIGEONS HUNTED TO EXTINCTION
The Columbian;  October 30, 1997 ;     228 words ... ... in the early 1800s, billions of passenger pigeons flocked in the skies over eastern North America. The birds had pinkish bodies and ... migration of settlers, millions of passenger pigeons were slaughtered for food, to the ...

Article: Going, going, gone.(Kirtland's warbler, passenger ...
Michigan History for Kids Magazine;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Endangered Species List. PASSENGER PIGEONS were once one of the most ... birds on Earth. Flocks of passenger pigeons were huge. On April 8, 1873 ... eastern markets. By 1900 wild passenger pigeons were a rare sight. In 1914 ...

Passenger Pigeons
Earth Explorer;  February 1, 1995 ;     199 words ...Earth Explorer 02-01-1995 Passenger Pigeons Pictures are all we have left of the once abundant passenger ... too well, destroying thousands of them at a time. The passenger pigeons went extinct in 1914 after the last bird died in captivity ...

Article: PASSENGER PIGEONS' DEMISE BAD FOR FORESTS.(Local)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 24, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... environmental researchers said at a conference last week. Passenger pigeons once numbered in the billions in New York and the Northeast ... disperse forest seeds, but they are not as efficient as passenger pigeons, he said. Besides global warming and extinction of the ...

Article: Return of the "passenger pigeons." (pigeons ride ...
Ranger Rick;  September 1, 1997 ;     456 words ...Passenger pigeons became extinct in the United States many years ago. But now people in England have spotted a new kind of "passenger pigeon ...

Article: Once there were millions of passenger pigeons too. ...
Alternatives Journal;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...The monarch butterfly is now officially vulnerable in Canada. Renowned for its unique and mysterious migration, the butterfly still numbers in the tens of millions. But its population fluctuates dramatically, with nearly 90 percent declines in some disastrous years, and its habitat is threatened

Article: Preserved passenger pigeon makes a rare appearance
AP Worldstream;  October 9, 2003 ;     699 words ... ... It is really one of the classic examples in North America of animal extinction," said Mayor, the park ... estimates there once were 3 billion to 5 billion passenger pigeons in North America _ up to 40 percent of all birds on the continent ...