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Why Did The Passenger Pigeon Go Extinct?

Although passenger pigeons were the victims of human hunters, we still don’t understand precisely how a species can decline from billions to none within a period of fifty years

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #ornithology #extinction #PassengerPigeon #ecology #genetics #hunting https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct

Why Did The Passenger Pigeon Go Extinct?

Although passenger pigeons were the victims of human hunters, we still don’t understand precisely how a species can decline from billions to none within a period of fifty years

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #ornithology #extinction #PassengerPigeon #ecology #genetics #hunting https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct

a row of passenger pigeons in a museum drawer

Why Did The Passenger Pigeon Go Extinct?

Although passenger pigeons were the victims of human hunters, we still don’t understand precisely how a species can decline from billions to none within a period of fifty years

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#birds #ornithology #extinction #PassengerPigeon #ecology #genetics #hunting https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct

#Extinction is forever... 111 years ago, on 1th September 1914, the last #PassengerPigeon on Earth, named #Martha, died of old age in #CincinnatiZoo cincinnatizoo.org/cincinnati-z...

Cartoon of the Martha, the last passenger pigeon, that died in the Cincinnati Zoo First of September 1914.

@joncounts The #PassengerPigeon is part of my #BiodiversityShrines - an art project to think about rare or extinct species.

The online version of the real expo: https://www.cronenburg.net/biodiversity/

#extinction #biodiversity #art #sciArt #birds

A vintage cigarette tin box (symbol of how fast we "smoke" species away) with a pigeon-like, emerald-green form. The background is an old German article "Von Milliarden blieb keine mehr" (from billions no single pigeon remained) about the extinction. The abstract pigeon looks very precious, glossy like a real emerald.

Zoom on the "pigeon body" before it was installed. It looks like a real emerald, partly included in a rock. But it is all burnt plastic waste from an illegal dump in a nature park, found at a stream bank.

#MarkAvery reminds us that it’s 111 years today since the extinction of the last passenger pigeon, a species that just a few decades earlier was the commonest bird on the planet.

https://markavery.info/2025/09/01/passenger-pigeon-day-111-years-gone/

#birds #extinction #PassengerPigeon #PassengerPigeonDay

🕊️ RIP Martha (1914)
The last passenger pigeon died today in a Cincinnati zoo.
Once, their flocks blackened the sky—if the stories be true.
Now, they’re only stories.
Another casualty of human excess.
Another ghost we made.

📎 [Illustration by Frank Bond, 1920]
🔗 https://www.audubon.org/news/the-story-martha-last-passenger-pigeon?utm_source=chatgpt.com

#Extinction #OnThisDay #PassengerPigeon #Ecology #Martha

Black-and-white 1920 illustration by Frank Bond showing massive, layered flocks of passenger pigeons flying across the sky in dense formation. The birds appear as endless waves, darkening the horizon—evoking the awe and now-vanished abundance of a species once billions strong.

About time we got some passenger pigeons on here. Diorama from the Rochester Museum and Science Center #NY. The net was likely used by trappers to capture pigeons. 🪺 #taxidermy #eggs #extinction #passengerpigeon

A message from Martha by Mark Avery - review, published by Bloomsbury Books

“This absorbing book is an engaging and wistful, yet measured, chronicle about the tragic loss of one very special, iconic, species, the passenger pigeon.”

review by @grrlscientist via #Substack

#books #BookReview #MustRead #ornithology #birds #PassengerPigeon #extinction #ExtinctSpecies https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/a-message-from-martha-by-mark-avery

A message from Martha by Mark Avery - review, published by Bloomsbury Books

“This absorbing book is an engaging and wistful, yet measured, chronicle about the tragic loss of one very special, iconic, species, the passenger pigeon.”

review by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#books #BookReview #MustRead #ornithology #birds #PassengerPigeon #extinction #ExtinctSpecies https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/a-message-from-martha-by-mark-avery

Pokeweed or Pigeon-berry (Phytolacca americana). These berries will turn a purplish black color when ripe. The pigeon berry moniker refers to this being a staple food of the now extinct passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), which was once the most populous bird species on Earth.

#pokeweed #passengerpigeon #pokeberry

[Day 31] Passenger Pigeon - リョコウバト

#AvianAugust #AvianAugust2024 #bird #pigeon #furry #FurryArt #PassengerPigeon

Digital art of a stylized Passenger Pigeon. It's a pigeon with a gray body, an orange chest and long tail feathers. It also has pink feet and a black beak.

Yolcu güvercinlerinin neslinin tükenmesi: Bir zamanlar yaygın olan bu kuş nasıl insanın açgözlülüğünün kurbanı oldu?
Milyonlarca yolcu güvercini çeşitli ustaca yöntemlerle tuzağa düşürüldü ve vuruldu. Trenler dolusu güvercin fıçıları doğuya, New York'a, Washington'a ve Philadelphia'ya restoranlara ve marketlere gönderildi.

#human #insan #nature #doğa
#yolcugüvercini #passengerpigeon

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/passenger-pigeon?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=holyfredmango%2Fmagazine%2FSocial%20Aesthetics

One of the things I will miss about the other place is the amazing deep dive by experts into niche bits of their expertise.

I know there are experts here on the Fediverse. And I know there are keen amateurs, and deep dives.

It's just I don't think I come across amazing things like this thread over here anywhere near as often as I used to over there.

Anyway. Read about #PassengerPigeon numbers in this amazing thread:
https://x.com/UrsulaV/status/1701218668393193976

It's well worth your time (IMHO)

#pigeon

I dreamed again of the passenger pigeon, blotting out the sky, fertilizing and remaking the forest, marking the seasons.

#dream #passengerpigeon

(Illustration of the Passenger Pigeon from Birds of America, 1827 - 1838

John James Audubon)

an illustration of two passenger pigeons on small tree branches, one with its beak inside the others, as if feeding it.

the birds have brown, white, black, blue, and red feathers

Talia Greene, Precarious Balance, 2015, archival pigment prints. Currently on view in Natural History at Past Present Projects Gallery. Open Thurs-Sat 12-5 at the Bok Building in South Philly.

#ContemporaryArt #Ecosystems #BirdsInArt #Birds #ExtinctSpecies #PassengerPigeon #Philadelphia #Philly #Galleries #ArtGalleries #Exhibition

Detail from Talia Greene's "Precarious Balance" series featuring birds perching upon each other.

Interior view of Past Present Projects gallery, featuring the work of Talia Greene.

Americans don't need a reason for a genocide as their past showed wrt #NativeAmericans, #PassengerPigeon, #Bisons.

RT @60Minutes@twitter.com

No, the government didn’t massacre billions of birds and replace them with drones. The Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy is pure parody, meant to mirror the absurdity of conspiracy theories that have taken flight across the country, says founder Peter McIndoe https://cbsn.ws/3LzIeiB https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1520911800690221057/video/1

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1520911800690221057

#PassengerPigeon

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