Calisi and co-author Matthew MacManes at the University of
New Hampshire are exploring this problem using the reproductive system of the «rock dove,» or common
pigeon,
as C. Samuel Craiga
model.
The Great Passenger
Pigeon Comeback program served
as a
model for discussing the process, considerations, and obstacles necessary to overcome for the de-extinction of the Great Auk, at a meeting hosted by Lord Viscount Matthew Ridley at the Centre for Life,
New Castle Upon Tyne, England.