The Passenger Pigeon Memorial at the Cincinnati Zoo
If you know anything about passenger pigeons, you know the last passenger pigeon was named Martha. She died 106 years…
Smithsonian Open Access Program: Martha
To celebrate the Smithsonian Institution’s formal announcement of its Open Access program, which makes almost 3 million digital images and…
Extinct Birds in Ceramic
The New Jersey State Museum‘s Fine Feathered Friends exhibit combines mounted birds from the natural history collection with ceramic birds…
Another Passenger Pigeon in England
There are two passenger pigeons at Horniman Museum in London. This one is in Birmingham. Even better, the Birmingham Museums…
Can Six Eggs Show Whether Passenger Pigeons Became Functionally Extinct?
David L. Roberts, Ivan Jarić and Andrew R. Solow, attempt to test the hypothesis that passenger pigeon became functionally extinct,…
The Video Rental Store/Passenger Pigeon Connection
It’s just a passing simile, but reviewer Joe Hill compares video rental stores, ubiquitous just a decade or two ago,…
Prehistory of the “Feathered Tempest”
Beloit College has posted the video of zooarchaeologist Steven Kuehn’s talk on the prehistoric occurrence of the passenger pigeon in…
Virtual Passenger Pigeon Bones and Digital Zooarchaeology
On the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon, the Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University has…
Martha’s Anniversary: Passenger Pigeon Events
With the 100th anniversary of the death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon, only days away, Ectopistes-related events are happening…
Passenger Pigeon Lecture at New York State Museum
Next month, the New York State Museum will be presenting a lecture on the passenger pigeon. Jeremy Kirchman is no…