The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), perhaps the world's most abundant bird species at one time, became extinct due directly to human activity. In the mid-1800s passenger pigeons travelled in flocks of astounding numbers. Alexander...

The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) or wild pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common bird in North America. It is estimated that there were as many as five billion passenger pigeons in the United States at the time...

Passenger pigeons were a staple food for the Native Americans and settlers living in what is today New York. After the 1850s the bird population began a quick decline as the population increased and people ate the bird as part of their diet. The...

It might seem a peculiar place for feathered regrets, these stunning windswept cliffs where hawks commute, where waterfowl make their annual pilgrimage by the millions, where the resurgent eagle roosts and reigns. But of course that is the point, isn't it, to use...