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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article title updated for style. | Nov 12, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: NPR - Why did the Passenger Pigeon go extinct? the answer might lie in their toes. | Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The MIT Press Reader - Grieving the Passenger Pigeon Into Existence Again. | Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Ecology and Evolution - Experimental Investigation of the Dietary Ecology of the Extinct Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius. | Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - CiteSeerX - The flight of the Passenger Pigeon: Phylogenetics and biogeographic history of an extinct species (PDF). | Apr 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Natural History Museum - Passenger pigeon: How the world�s most common bird went extinct. | Feb 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Heredity - Passenger pigeon genomic diversity and extinction. | Jan 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Libraries - Introduction to Sensation and Perception - Kinesthesia and Proprioception. | Jan 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - Drastic population fluctuations explain the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon. | Oct 07, 2024 | ||
| Noted that the last known passenger pigeon was named Martha. | Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wisconsin Historical Society - Passenger Pigeons. | Jul 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Post-pigeon: 100 years since most common bird's extinction. | May 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Florida Museum - Passenger Pigeon. | Apr 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The flight of the Passenger Pigeon: Phylogenetics and biogeographic history of an extinct species. | Dec 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Century After Extinction, Passenger Pigeons Remain Iconic�And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back. | Nov 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - Passenger Pigeon. | Sep 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Colby College Community Web - The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon. | Jul 27, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 16, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Passenger Pigeon genomic diversity and extinction. | May 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Audubon - Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct. | Apr 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Why did the Passenger Pigeon go extinct? the answer might lie in their toes. | Feb 15, 2023 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 13, 2019 | ||
| Added new Web site: Smithsonian - The Passenger Pigeon. | Mar 11, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford University - The Passenger Pigeon. | Mar 11, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Passenger Pigeon. | Mar 11, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 25, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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