Passenger pigeons were hunted by Native Americans, but hunting intensified after the arrival of Europeans, particularly in the 19th century. Pigeon meat was ...

The large flocks of passenger pigeons often caused serious damage to the crops, and the farmers retaliated by shooting the birds and using them as a source of ...

27 июн. 2014 г. · The species had gone from extraordinarily populous to extinct in a human life span. Now an analysis of genes pulled from toe pads of stuffed ...

Four billion passenger pigeons once darkened the skies of North America, but by the end of the 19th century, they were all gone.

In the intervening years, researchers have agreed that the bird was hunted out of existence, victimized by the fallacy that no amount of exploitation could ...

4 мар. 2020 г. · For decades, the extinction of passenger pigeons has been explained by two theories of human impact. New research shows one of these ...

26 окт. 2021 г. · Probably the first is that they went feral, which would have happened pretty much around when we domesticated them; some of them would have ...

4 февр. 2024 г. · In other words, they don't know. A popular theory on message boards is that pigeons are being outcompeted by wily crows. This jibes with the ...

3 сент. 2023 г. · It was the ultimate migrant. A bird of such abundance it created entire forest ecosystems. This is why Passenger Pigeons were important.