Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History houses one of largest bird collections in the world. One of their most prized birds, Martha, was the last passenger pigeon to ever fly. A Flight ...

The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s ... Habitat loss likely had the largest impact. By the late 1800s, almost half of the USA’s native forest had been ...

Now, discover the surprising origins of homing pigeons in World War II England from All Creatures Great and Small’s official historian, Dr. Mark Roodhouse of the University of York. As Siegfried ...