DNA Study of Birds, Extinction, and Demography
This paper by Smith, Gehara, and Harvey was released earlier this year (currently behind a paywall): The demography of extinction…
The California Condor Genome
An interesting article on the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus), which faced extinction but has so far survived. Analysis of its…
Massive and Free Archaeology Book on the Onondaga Iroquois
The New York State Museum has just published James W. Bradley’s new book, Onondaga and Empire; An Iroquoian People in…
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…
New Jersey’s State Bird
In association with the Fine Feathered Friends exhibit, here’s history behind how the Eastern Goldfinch became New Jersey’s official state…
Passenger Pigeons on New Hampshire Public Radio
How many is a lot? When you’re talking passenger pigeons, that question is more controversial than you might think. I…
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…
Two Passenger Pigeon Specimens in England
I recently stumbled upon two more passenger pigeon mounts I was unaware of. The Horninam Museum and Gardens in London,…