Sentences with phrase «iconic passenger pigeon»
Many of these extinctions are triggered by human activity, from the iconic passenger pigeon to black rhinos to Tasmanian tigers.
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The number of specimens of great auks, dodos, passenger pigeons and many iconic extinct species in museum collections is vanishingly small compared to the numbers that were cooked, killed for their feathers, shot for sport, or eaten by introduced species, such as cats.
Conservation has often rallied behind iconic birds to galvanize environmental revolutions — modern conservation itself began with the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.
Ben Novak, a young scientist at The Long Now Foundation, is leading the work to revive and restore the most iconic extinct species in the US, the passenger pigeon.
Ben Novak, a young scientist at The Long Now Foundation, is leading the work to revive and restore the most iconic extinct species in the US, the passenger pigeon.
A hundred years later, the passenger pigeon remains iconic and is inspiring extravagant new technological feats.