Wild game, such as passenger pigeons, was available for food.

This reminds me of the thinking around the passenger pigeon.

What is hard to remember about passenger pigeons isn't merely their once enormous numbers.

The dramatic story of the passenger pigeon has taken a strong hold on popular imagination.

In addition, remains of the extinct passenger pigeon have been found.

We also completely eliminated the passenger pigeon through commercial hunting.

The passenger pigeon, which went extinct 75 years ago next year, was once in Connecticut.

The Passenger Pigeon was one of the most social land birds.

The bird came back, climbing the blue air, and brought a passenger pigeon from below the clouds.

I do not know what a passenger pigeon dresses out to, but let us suppose it is a pound.

Once the most abundant bird in the world, the passenger pigeon had become extinct by 1914.

The Passenger Pigeon was exceptional for a number of reasons.

The passenger pigeon, to the number of a billion and a half birds, has returned to North America.

"Passenger pigeons, Leo, and they've been gone for quite a few decades.

We could have gone down the outside then if Passenger Pigeon hadn't been below us with a long knife.

The Passenger Pigeon changed its diet depending on the season.

Some have suggested cloning the Passenger Pigeon in the future.

Numerous authorities fear the documentary will emulate the passenger pigeon.

The dodo and the passenger pigeon were lost, but hundreds of other species have been saved.

"I don't know why they're called passenger pigeons," I told her.

By the late 1800s, the trade of Passenger Pigeons had become commercialized.

"One hundred thousand dollars for four female passenger pigeons.

One of his tiles is of a passenger pigeon.

Any birder who claims to have spotted, say, a passenger pigeon will probably meet strong skepticism.

That and the extinction of the passenger pigeon.

However, it is unknown how long a wild pigeon lived.

Q. Do wild pigeons carry diseases that people should be concerned about?

I have been able to snare a brace of wild pigeon.

Wild pigeons, which once swarmed by the tens of thousands, were driven from the area.

He and his colleagues observed more than 1,800 falcon attacks on wild pigeons in an open field near Davis over seven years.

There is no record of a wild pigeon dying of either disease or parasites.

The sky was filled with wild pigeons and the streams teamed with fish.

Wild pigeons and other birds may be an important source of introducing the infection to domestic birds.

"Smooth hound," for example, was one restaurateur's stab at wild pigeon.

A small wild pigeon flew close to Number 74 and then exploded into a cloud of blood, feathers and gore.

"The wild pigeon has outwitted you all, has she not, Mayaro, my friend?"

Upstream, there are more of the stationary bird species, such as grouse, wild pigeon and partridge.

When all the birds were out of their cages, he began ringing the bell to frighten the wild pigeons in the belfry.

Not, Depape thought, a wild pigeon.

I, a Sagamore, know better than to deny a fire its ashes, or a wild pigeon its magic flight."

He answered, "Its entrance is covered with cobwebs, and there is a pair of wild pigeons on the threshold.

Wild pigeons, squirrels, the lot.

"Where there are wild pigeons there are hawks, Loskiel.

The wild pigeons now approaching the tame ones, are caught in the nets by the dexterous management of the sportsmen."

Wild pigeons, flying foxes (fruit bats), crabs and fish are also caught and eaten.

The common wild pigeons of the Eastern United States are the passenger pigeon, and the Carolina dove.

Wild Pigeon, by Carolyn Drake.

The meat from older and wild pigeons is much tougher than squab, and requires a long period of stewing or roasting to tenderize.

He points out pheasant, wild pigeon and colvert (wild duck) and then goes off to dish it out.

Food and water sources, as well as bird baths, should be cleaned regularly and protected from contamination by wild pigeons and other birds.

Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

Similarly, vast flights of passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) were reported by Peter Fidler in the early 19th century.

Some spectacular migrants have already gone extinct, the most notable being the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius).

The Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) had several roosting (and probably nesting) places in the county when it was still wooded.

Additionally, Columbicola extinctus is a parasite of the extinct Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius).

The Mourning Dove is thought to be most closely related to the extinct Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius).

The Mourning Dove is a related species to the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), which was hunted to extinction in the early 1900s.

The Passenger Pigeon or Wild Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct North American bird.

The Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) or wild pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common bird in North America.