How to Use passenger pigeon in a Sentence

passenger pigeon

noun

• 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
• Church focused not on the passenger pigeon but on his own pet project, the woolly mammoth.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• In fact, one of the last living wild passenger pigeons was found roosting with mourning doves.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• Some, like the passenger pigeon, were extinct.
  — Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
• Scientists studying the passenger pigeon have their work cut out for them.
  — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2014
• 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
• Due to heavy market hunting and habitat loss, the passenger pigeon is now extinct.
  — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Cloning eventually could bring back extinct species such as the passenger pigeon.
  — Mead Gruver, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The last wild passenger pigeon was shot dead in Indiana in 1902.
  — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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 now-extinct passenger pigeon was once the most abundant bird in North America.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• Thousands of passenger pigeons were shot in the countryside and taken to urban markets by the wagonload.
  — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
• 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
• In 1914 Martha, the world’s last passenger pigeon, died in Cincinnati.
  — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
• De-extinction projects are already underway for the passenger pigeon and the woolly mammoth.
  — Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
• The law was enacted after several species of common birds, such as the passenger pigeon, became extinct.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• And Novak isn’t the only fantasy fan with an interest in passenger pigeons.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2017
• Now Bush lives in a county where GOP office holders are going the way of the passenger pigeon.
  — Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2022
• 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
• This story, from trillions to none, is a lot like that of the passenger pigeon, which also disappeared in the early twentieth century.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• The visitor can inspect the now extinct passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Scientific American, 17 May 2013
• 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
• The passenger pigeon, once the most abundant bird in North America, had gone extinct in 1914.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2023
• But there are also stories of bravery, passion, and inventiveness, like the quests to bring the passenger pigeon back from extinction, and to create eggless egg and meatless meat.
  — The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021