James Bond’s Passenger Pigeon Egg
This passenger pigeon egg is from the collection of James Bond, the real ornithologist and inspiration for the fictional spy. Bond worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia…
3D Passenger Pigeon from University of Victoria at Sketchfab
Passenger Pigeon specimen by UVic Libraries on Sketchfab
“An extraordinary bird of great size and beauty”
Mecca Cigarettes trading card from the early 1900s. “The young birds are very fat and their flesh is delicious.”
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, “defined as permanent reproductive failure prior to true extinction” (p.…
Basket for Storing Live Passenger Pigeons
This mid-nineteenth century basket, on display as part of the passenger pigeon exhibit at the New Jersey State Museum, is on loan from the Schoolhouse Museum in Ridgewood, NJ. It…
The Oldest Passenger Pigeon Fossil
How old is the earliest passenger pigeon fossil? A single wing bone found at the Lee Creek Mine paleontological locality in North Carolina is 3.7 to 4.8 million years old,…
Northernmost Passenger Pigeon Fossils Found Near Site of Controversial Dam Project
A controversial dam and reservoir planned for British Columbia, Canada, is expected to flood over 12,000 acres (5000 hectares) of land in the Peace River valley. The Peace River Valley…
John Lawson on Passenger Pigeons in Carolina
John Lawson arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1700. At the end of the year, he set off with nine other people on a two month long excursion through South…
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 the Midwest. Kuehn briefly surveys passenger pigeon bones at archaeological…
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 just posted the results of a project to create 3D models…