Talk:Passenger pigeon

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=163368 TheZodiac007 (talk) 00:25, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

This is covered in the article - see Passenger_pigeon#Last_survivors, end of first paragraph. Determining which of these records can stand as the last well-verified wild sighting has always been difficult. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 11:30, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

This article doesn't need more content but just bookmarking for future researchers, I thought this was a lovely and informative passage. I can't figure out the date but I'm guessing 1830s?

When we reached the Bayou Bonida, our attention was arrested by a roaring overhead. We looked up and saw vast flocks of wild pigeons coming from every quarter and forming what is called a pigeon roost. The advanced flocks would select and settle on the boughs of the trees, and successive flocks would settle on and cleave to their predecessors until they would hang in clusters like a swarm of bees. Frequently the accumulating weight would break a bough and bring it down with a crash, and the birds would fly off, only to return immediately and make another settlement. The smaller and more elastic trees were often so overloaded that they bent until the top limbs rested on the ground. After selecting their place for roosting, they would return each succeeding evening until they migrated to some new territory. What excited our curiosity was that they should come from afar and concentrate on one acre of trees almost to suffocation when they had illimitable forests to roost in at their convenience wherever night might overtake them.

Source: 1908 history of Methodism in Mississippi by John G. Jones pp 104–105

Cheers, jengod (talk) 20:21, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't know if this warrants inclusion in the article, but my home town of Mimico Ontario is named after the Passenger Pigeon. https://torontofamilyhistory.org/kingandcountry/tdsb/secondary-g-m#mhs-ss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimico https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/336688 (page 18, "How Mimico got it's name") 99.246.205.53 (talk) 18:26, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Possibly, I wonder what section it would fit in. FunkMonk (talk) 13:15, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Possibly in the etymology section? 99.246.205.53 (talk) 13:50, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

And either there or elsewhere the passenger pigeon deserves its own monument statue. Probably several. An amazing story of a dinosaur that filled the skies. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:47, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

I could have sworn the temporal range used to end at something like 0.000111 MYA (which is where it would be now, 9/1/1914 is currently 111 years ago). Should that be the case? It'd be bothersome to change it every year, yes, but at least it'd be very very minutely more accurate than 0 MYA... let me know what you think. BeanBoy2763 (talk) 07:16, 23 February 2026 (UTC)