You begin to interest me…vaguely
Just discovered this site, and it looks to be quite good. Start with their post on paleontologist Hildegarde Howard, because she identified fossil passenger pigeons out west:
Photo from Trowelblazers, original from Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University has just posted a 3-D scanned image of a passenger pigeon bone. Follow the link to their site, as they have have scanned and posted several other bones from Ectopistes.
