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"Soon my love we will join the others under the museum lights, but for now, under the starlight, you are glowing"
The last Passenger Pigeon and last Carolina Parakeet on earth both died at the Cincinnati zoo in the early 1900s.
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Forgotten Griffin
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On this day in 1914, Martha, the last-known living Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her death at age 29 after a lifetime in captivity marked the disappearance of her once-abundant species from the world. And it made her name synonymous with species extinction at human hands. But what happened?
Before the second half of the nineteenth century, the Passenger Pigeon was the most common bird in the United States, with a population numbering in the billions. Flocks of pigeons flying overhead were so dense that they could darken the skies. But a combination of overhunting and habitat destruction sent this species into decline, and by the turn of the century, it was considered extinct in the wild.
Photo: Enno Meyer, CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
#science#nature#natural history#animals#fact of the day#did you know#otd#on this day#extinct animals#extinction#conservation#pigeon#passenger pigeon
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Its 2024!!! Happy new year, or happy new year's eve depending on where in the world you are.
And a great time to begin a new art challenge. I have a list of extinct birds for january, starting (ofc) with the passenger pigeon. These are such a great representative species for extinct birds imo - they used to be one of the most numerous birds on Earth, numbering in the billions, yet they vanished within a century. So gorgeous too!
As a communally roosting bird, their sheer numbers used to snap even large branches and they often piled on top of each other to roost. And then. Poof. None left.
#artists on tumblr#birds#pigeon#digital art#extinct animals#digital illustration#birdblr#bird art#bird of the day#passenger pigeon#columbiformes
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Passenger Pigeons, Ectopistes migratorius, extinct 1914
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Lost Americans wheel. Watercolor and ink.
#extinct#extinct bird#great auk#carolina parakeet#passenger pigeon#eskimo curlew#labrador duck#ivory billed woodpecker#bachman's warbler#heath hen#dusky seaside sparrow#spectacled cormorant
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I've collected some weird vintage bird imagery, from bird hats to bird people, ghost birds to giant birds.
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Feel like shit just want them back
#I'm not even joking i think about them on average at least once a day#i am unwell#passenger pigeon#we did you so so wrong#it's Makenna Is Mad About Extinct Birds hour again#martha i will avenge you#i don't know how yet but I'll do it#shut up me#extinction#extinct animals#birds#birdblr#environmentalism#i want to see them block out the sun i want to witness their splendor#but i can't and my soul will never know peace
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Visited the local ecology building where they store specimens and they have a whole extinct/rare bird cabinet I was so blessed to be able to view and spend time with. The closest I’ve come to a religious experience, just getting to sit in the presence of these guys was so…there’s no words. I have more photos I’ll add eventually but I hope to go back again soon.
#extinct birds#passenger pigeon#carolina parakeet#ivory billed woodpecker#extinct species#my art#in-vyn-cible
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Omg I can't believe Avian August is over. I DID IT! It's been so fun and a bit challenging to finish it up! Thank you @cookiedoves for hosting this challenge!! Here's my last 8 pigeons and doves. 24. Kereru (New Zealand) 25. Scaled Pigeon (South America) 26. Mourning Dove (North America) 27. Western Crowned Pigeon (New Guinea) 28. Old German Owl Pigeon (Germany, domestic breed) 29. Many-Colored Fruit Dove (Fiji, Samoan Islands, Tonga) 30. Cinnamon Ground Dove (New Guinea) 31. Passenger Pigeon (Extinct since 1914, North America)
#avian august 2024#artists on tumblr#digital art#bird art#dove#pigeon#procreate art#columbidae#avian august#passenger pigeon#cinnamon ground dove#many colored fruit dove#old german owl pigeon#western crowned pigeon#mourning dove#scaled pigeon#kereru
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flocking time: too many birds edition :>
#my art#dinosaurs#paleoart#birds#passenger pigeon#oceanic eclectus#kosmoceratops#sao miguel scops owl
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Next week, I graduate with my BFA in Art. This was my final piece of Illustration coursework. Hoping that it'll be part of the pitch package for a real book before long. 😊
Billions of Mouths to Feed Like most birds, the passenger pigeon was omnivorous, feeding on a wide variety of plant and insect matter. The most important of its food sources were mast-producing trees. A single pigeon could eat half its body weight in a day, and flocks wandered thousands of miles in search of a bountiful harvest; it was this habit of travel that gave the bird its name. Pigeons showed a preference for the mast of the American beech, the white oak, and the American chestnut (a tree whose own catastrophic population collapse, resulting from imported disease, may have played a role in the concurrent decline of the pigeon).
#extinction stories#passenger pigeon#recently extinct#extinct birds#natural history illustration#american chestnut
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Happy birthday to me! Have some photos of extinct bird specimens that I took at the RAMM today.
I ALSO EMBARRASSED MYSELF SO MUCH BY CRYING OVER SUCH EXTINCT BIRDS 😭😭😭 to the museum staff, i am so sorry that you had to worry over me...
I mean, at least I got to see a bunch of cool birds! MORE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER AND HUIA SPECIMENS... IBWO AND HIRIWAI MY BELOVEDS ❤️
slightly unrelated but have some non-extinct birds as well...
#museum visit#natural history museum#royal albert memorial museum#extinct birds#huia bird#extinct animals#passenger pigeon#carolina parakeet#ivory billed woodpecker
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Holocene Extinctions
These animals all deserved better, but the best we can do is remember them and tell their stories.
Stickers Here <3
Great Auk - Dodo
Stellar's Sea Cow - Japanese Sea Lion / Caribbean Monk Seal - Baiji
Imperial Woodpecker - Passenger Pigeon
Thylacine - Warrah - Turnspit Dog
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#art#my art#paleoart#paleontology#science#illustration#extinction#extinct animals#dodo#great auk#warrah#stellars sea cow#japanese sea lion#caribbean monk seal#baiji#thylacine#imperial woodpecker#passenger pigeon#turnspit dog
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On September 1, 1914, Martha, the last-known living Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her death at age 29 after a lifetime in captivity marked the disappearance of her once-abundant species from the world. And it made her name synonymous with species extinction at human hands. But what happened?
Before the second half of the nineteenth century, the Passenger Pigeon was the most common bird in the United States, with a population numbering in the billions. Flocks of pigeons flying overhead were so dense that they could darken the skies. But a combination of overhunting and habitat destruction sent this species into decline, and by the turn of the century, it was considered extinct in the wild.
Photo: Enno Meyer, CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Passenger pigeon. They migrated across Canada and the US in flocks of many millions of birds, before their extinction in 1914.
[ID: a digital drawing of a passenger pigeon flying to the right, surrounded by coral pink flowers and a decorative border. End.]
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