Have you heard the heartbreaking story of the last passenger pigeon to ever live? Flocks of this pigeon species were once so ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. The last passenger pigeon on Earth ...

The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) once migrated in flocks of 3 to 5 billion, numbers great enough to black out the sky, but by 1914, the last of its kind, named “Martha,” passed away at ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- A hundred years ago, Martha died and an environmental cautionary tale was born. On Sept. 1, 1914, Martha, a passenger pigeon, fell off her perch at the Cincinnati Zoo and dropped dead.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Petoskey is set to honor the extinct passenger pigeon with a week of free public events and the unveiling of a new monument. 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 ...

For the first time this century, one of the world’s most famous bird specimens has come out of storage for public display. Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, is posed on a branch amid a small ...

The history of the extinct passenger pigeon has a local footnote. In 1895 the last nest and egg of that species to be found in the wild were collected near Minneapolis, exact location unknown. This ...

DENVER – This Labor Day weekend many Coloradans are enjoying the fresh air and wildlife – but there’s one sight they aren’t seeing. Today marks the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger ...

2014 is the year of the passenger pigeon. Not that any passenger pigeons are around to appreciate this fact: the last one, Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo exactly a century ago, on September 1, ...

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 ...