passenger pigeon

They destroyed everything--the Indians, the soil, the forests, just as they destroyed the buffalo and the passenger pigeon. Their morality in business and politics was gambler morality.

Once the pioneers got past the stage of eating venison, boiled moose nose, marinated beaver tail, and fried-in-bear-grease passenger pigeon breast, to a staple diet of golden corn meal mush, they began to think of better -- even gracious -- living, and to scrounge recipes for it.

IN 1900, THE last known passenger pigeon to be hunted was supposedly shot by a boy in Ohio.

I could send notes via the passenger pigeon and exclaim at the wondrous sight of the woolly mammoths roaming in the ice age and the all-powerful and majestic Tyrannosaurus Rex wandering about in the real Jurassic World.

Once upon a time, the passenger pigeon was endemic in North America.

Animals that have been made extinct over the years include the dodo, the passenger pigeon, and - as recently as 2011 - the west African black rhinoceros.

Unlike the ill-fated passenger pigeon, the MBTA has stood the test of time, surviving without fundamental change.

Some species in Africa and the Indian subcontinent have declined by more than 95 percent in the past few decades, a rate faster than that of the passenger pigeon or the dodo.

Near the top of most lists are the woolly mammoth, which lived in the Arctic and went extinct about 4,000 years ago, and the passenger pigeon, which was once the most common bird in North America but went extinct in 1914.

Pycraft dedicated two of his "World of Science" columns to pigeons: in "Is the Passenger Pigeon Extinct?

1914--The last passenger pigeon in existence dies in a Cincinnati, Ohio zoo.