Passenger pigeon

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Passenger pigeon

Illustration of a passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, an extinct bird species with a gray-blue head, reddish breast, and long tail, measuring about 32 centimeters in length.

The last known passenger pigeon

What are the Different Types of Extinction?

Illustrations of four extinct species: a dodo, a Tasmanian wolf or thylacine, a passenger pigeon, and a mamo, with the birds shown larger for detail. Scientific names are included.

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What are the Different Types of Extinction?

What are the Different Types of Extinction?

The die-off of the dinosaurs is different from the extinction of the dodo.

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Passenger pigeon

Passenger pigeon

An extinct passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), mounted.

Bill Reasons—The National Audubon Society Collection/Photo Researchers

Illustration of a passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, an extinct bird species with a gray-blue head, reddish breast, and long tail, measuring about 32 centimeters in length.

passenger pigeon

The last known passenger pigeon died in 1914.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

The last known passenger pigeon

The last known passenger pigeon

Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, preserved in the collection of the National...

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Smithsonian Institution, (Image No. SIA_000095_B44_F04_013)

Illustrations of four extinct species: a dodo, a Tasmanian wolf or thylacine, a passenger pigeon, and a mamo, with the birds shown larger for detail. Scientific names are included.

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Some species made extinct by humans.

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