Sentences with phrase «historic passenger pigeons»

Our goal is not to recreate identical copies of historic passenger pigeons — this is an impossible thing to do.

All birds will be implanted with micro-GPS trackers to trace their movements — in this way we can locate and retrieve birds that wander, but more importantly we can observe if the birds are forming the tight social units that historic passenger pigeons did.

All birds will be implanted with micro-GPS trackers to trace their movements — in this way we can locate and retrieve birds that wander, but more importantly we can observe if the birds are forming the tight social units that historic passenger pigeons did.

Not exact matches

We used DNA sequences from 42 Passenger Pigeons spanning 4,000 years of history to reconstruct historic population trends.

In historic records passenger pigeons were noted for their wildness and preference for forests over man - made environments.

By drawing from every source of information we have to model the ecology of the Passenger Pigeon — including comparisons to analogous species, analyses of historic accounts, and new discoveries — we can piece together a vision of the species dynamic ecological cycle.

This is an effort all residents of the passenger pigeons» historic home range can help to piece together.

Work continues on the paleoecology of the Passenger Pigeon to re-evaluate historic hypotheses of the species» biology.

Through studying population genetics, we can evaluate historic accounts with a more accurate understanding of Passenger Pigeon ecology.