How to Use passenger pigeon in a Sentence

passenger pigeon

noun

• It has not been seen since 1988 and is now presumed to have joined the passenger pigeon and the ivorybill.
  — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• The law was too late to save some species, though, including the passenger pigeon.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2018
• There would have been a goose or two, some ducks and, believe it or not, even the now-extinct passenger pigeon.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2020
• For the same reasons gun racks in trucks have all but gone the way of the passenger pigeon, gun safes have replaced gun cabinets.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2020
• The three males' toe pads yielded long stretches of the passenger pigeon genome (although the female toe pad proved a bust).
  — David Biello, Scientific American, 27 June 2014
• Church focused not on the passenger pigeon but on his own pet project, the woolly mammoth.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• Now Bush lives in a county where GOP office holders are going the way of the passenger pigeon.
  — Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2022
• The last wild passenger pigeon was shot dead in Indiana in 1902.
  — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2021
• Could hunting alone have brought down the passenger pigeon?
  — David Biello, Scientific American, 27 June 2014
• If Sanders and Warren have their way, though, private insurance will go the way of the passenger pigeon.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• In fact, one of the last living wild passenger pigeons was found roosting with mourning doves.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• Ruthven is the artist behind a painting of the last passenger pigeons, which is now a mural in downtown Cincinnati.
  — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Like our extinct passenger pigeon, the weight of flocks of queleas landing in a tree can break branches.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• The passenger pigeon, once the most abundant bird in North America, had gone extinct in 1914.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2023
• The loss of common birds has happened before, like the extinction of the passenger pigeon, according to the study.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Sep. 2019
• The most vivid accounts of squirrel irruptions date to a time when old growth forests had yet to be logged, when bison roamed the West and flocks of passenger pigeons darkened the skies.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• The now-extinct passenger pigeon was once the most abundant bird in North America.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• Due to heavy market hunting and habitat loss, the passenger pigeon is now extinct.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• Scientists studying the passenger pigeon have their work cut out for them.
  — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2014
• The list of the fallen includes some relatively familiar creatures, such as the passenger pigeon and the Steller’s sea cow.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• By that time two other American species faced their imminent demise: the once-abundant passenger pigeon and the heath hen, a grouse-like bird that lived along the Eastern seaboard.
  — Jennie Erin Smith, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2019
• Meanwhile, the beloved side-by-side has essentially gone the way of the passenger pigeon in competitive clay sports.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2017
• Rosenberg pointed to the example of the passenger pigeon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• The findings raise fears that some familiar species could go the way of the passenger pigeon, a species once so abundant that its extinction in the early 1900s seemed unthinkable.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Sep. 2019
• For the past decade or so, Brand has helped fight—the environmentalists, the bioethicists—to resurrect long-dead species like the passenger pigeon and the woolly mammoth.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
• Photo: Brian Wengrofsky The first step was to sequence the passenger pigeon genome.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• By the end of the 19th century, the American frontier was closed, the herds of buffalo and the great flocks of passenger pigeons were gone, and some feared the magnificent trees would disappear, too.
  — Zach St. George, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2018
• Cloning eventually could bring back extinct species such as the passenger pigeon.
  — Mead Gruver, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• Using the passenger pigeon as a thought experiment, another paper in the same issue looks at the fears and excitement of leaders in the field of genomics.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2013
• Exactly 100 years ago, the last captive Carolina parakeet died, alone in a cage in the Cincinnati Zoo, the same zoo where the last captive passenger pigeon, named Martha, died four years earlier.
  — Kevin R. Burgio, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2018

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