At one point in the history of the U.S. one bird so dominated the skies that its flocks numbered in the tens of millions, but ...

Charles T. Dunning of Goshen, ex-Chief Clerk of the New York State Senate, has a fine collection of mounted specimens of birds, and among them is one of a bird that is to-day extinct, so far as ...

THE description in THE TIMES MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT of last Sunday as to the disappearance some twelve years ago from the woodlands of the United States of the "passenger" or wild pigeon, as the bird ...

“Never again will I fly @SpiritAirlines,” the passenger — who goes by @symonebeez — wrote in the caption while describing the bugged airplane. “I’ve flown over 500,000 miles on Delta ...

Once one of the most populous birds in North America, passenger pigeons were estimated to fly ... In 1933, the species was declared extinct after the disappearance of the last known heath hen ...

Over the span of 50 years, we wiped out an estimated 3 billion to 5 billion passenger pigeons with our indifferent greed. Each species is a thread that holds the world together, and we are ripping ...

Catching sleep at 30,000 feet might seem impossible. However, one enterprising Ryanair passenger has devised an unorthodox way to grab some shuteye in the sky despite cramped onboard conditions ...

LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - Seeking solace in a turbulent world, Jennie Brennan and Jacob Peter have found an unlikely source of wellbeing: quietly rescuing and rehabilitating London's pigeons.

The hope is that, if magnolias ever go extinct, the cryopreserved plants can be thawed out and reestablished in the wild. “It’s a garden on standby for things that can be lost,” Folgado says ...

coli, and Salmonella. Lessons from the Indian Vulture Crisis The damage that follows local vulture extinction could be far-reaching, affecting not only animals but humans too. India has already seen ...

May 27, 2025 — Researchers conducted a systematic review of 99 scientific publications that compared the flora or fauna of old-growth forests, managed forests and clearcut sites in boreal Europe ...