Passenger Pigeon AR Page
Information about this bird
(Information from a display plaque for this bird)
This is a Passenger Pigeon, once they numbered in the billions (it may have been the most numerous bird on Earth), migrating across North America. Wisconsin supported massive nesting colonies of this bird.
Sadly, over hunting drove them to extinction in less than 20 years. The last bird died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.
The Passenger pigeon has become a flagship species for conservation. In 1947, Aldo Leopold, the famous Wisconsin Wildlife Ecologist (naturalist) dedicated a monument to the pigeon at Wyalusing State park in Grant County. Historically, millions of pigeons would nest at this site. At the dedication he gave the following remarks:
Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons. Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a decade hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know.Aldo Leopold, 1947
Download the USDZ AR file for this bird
Scanned by Cedar Sahyun on 9/20/2024
This bird is from the specimen collection at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater Department of Biology
The bird was scanned while enclosed in a glass case.
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