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Passenger Pigeon in Flight, digital painting14" x 14" on archival paper $100 Band Tailed Pigeon, Passenger Pigeon, Extinct Birds, Homing Pigeons, Dove Pigeon, Extinct Species, Cincinnati Zoo, Dna Repair, Bring It Back

These are digital paintings of the extinct Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes Migratorious) based on photos from the Whitman collection and specimens from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. These studies are for a future painting I am currently working on. Only 150 years ago the Passenger Pigeon was the most numerous bird on earth, numbering in the billions. During their migrations the flocks were so massive that they could block the light of the sun for days at a time. In only 50 years they…

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Passenger pigeons from John James Audubon's "The Birds of America" (1840s) (courtesy Biodiveristy Heritage Library) Passenger Pigeon Extinct, Nature Journal Ideas, Fabric Rendering, Passenger Pigeon, Botanical Printables, History Drawings, Uncle Ben, Natural History Illustration, Blaise Pascal

Once ubiquitous in North America, by 1914 the population of passenger pigeons had been reduced by relentless hunting to a single bird named Martha at the Cincinnati Zoo. When Martha herself was found dead in her cage on September 1 of that year, she was packed on 300 pounds of ice and rushed to the Smithsonian Institution for preservation.

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