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Meaning of "passenger pigeon" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PASSENGER PIGEON

passenger pigeon


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PASSENGER PIGEON

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Passenger pigeon is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PASSENGER PIGEON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Passenger pigeon

The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon is an extinct North American bird. Named after the French word passager for “passing by,” it was once the most abundant bird in the world. It accounted for more than a quarter of all birds in North America. The species lived in enormous migratory flocks until the early 20th century, when hunting and habitat destruction led to its demise. One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mi wide and 300 mi long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds. That number, if accurate, would likely represent a large fraction of the entire population at the time. Some estimate 3 to 5 billion Passenger Pigeons were in the United States when Europeans arrived in North America. Others argue the species had not been common in the pre-Columbian period, but their numbers grew when devastation of the American Indian population by European diseases led to reduced competition for food. The species went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world during the 19th century to extinction early in the 20th century.

Definition of passenger pigeon in the English dictionary

The definition of passenger pigeon in the dictionary is a gregarious North American pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius: became extinct at the beginning of the 20th century.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PASSENGER PIGEON

passenger · passenger car · passenger cell · passenger coach · passenger door · passenger enquiries · passenger ferry · passenger jet · passenger list · passenger mile · passenger seat · passenger ship · passenger side · passenger station · passenger traffic · passenger train · passepied · passer · passer-by · passerine

WORDS THAT END LIKE PASSENGER PIGEON

American wigeon · Cape pigeon · carrier pigeon · clay pigeon · clay-pigeon · dungeon · homing pigeon · New Zealand pigeon · orthopaedic surgeon · orthopedic surgeon · pigeon · plastic surgeon · racing pigeon · rock pigeon · stool pigeon · sturgeon · surgeon · wigeon · wonga pigeon · wood pigeon

Synonyms and antonyms of passenger pigeon in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «passenger pigeon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PASSENGER PIGEON

Find out the translation of passenger pigeon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of passenger pigeon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «passenger pigeon» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

旅鸽
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

paloma migratoria
570 millions of speakers
en

English

passenger pigeon
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

यात्री कबूतर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحمام الزاجل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

странствующий голубь
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

pombo-passageiro
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অভিবাসী কবুতর
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

pigeon voyageur
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Merpati penumpang
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Taube
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

リョコウバト
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

여객 비둘기
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pigeon penumpang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

loại bồ câu rừng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பயணிகள் புறா
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

प्रवासी कबूतर
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Yolcu güvercin
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

piccione del passeggero
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

gołąb wędrowny
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

мандрівний голуб
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

porumbei călători
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιστέρι επιβατών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

passasier duif
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

passagerar duva
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

passasjer due
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PASSENGER PIGEON»

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A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's ...
This beautifully written cautionary tale reveals how passenger pigeons have become extinct and how no series effort was made to protect this species that inspired awe in the likes of John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau and James ...
Joel Greenberg, 2014
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The Passenger Pigeon: Its Natural History and Extinction
Published in 1955 by the University of Oklahoma Press, this is the classic study of the extinction of the passenger pigeon.
A. W. Schorger, 2011
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The Passenger Pigeon
This stunningly illustrated book tells the astonishing story of North America’s Passenger Pigeon, a bird species that—like the Tyrannosaur, the Mammoth, and the Dodo—has become one of the great icons of extinction.
Errol Fuller, 2014
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The Passenger Pigeon
From " Ornithological Biography," by John James Audubon THE Passenger Pigeon, or, as it is usually named in America, the Wild Pigeon, moves with extreme rapidity, propelling itself by quickly repeated flaps of the wings, which it brings ...
W. B. Mershon, 1907
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Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America
At the heart of the book is an improbable and extremely witty history of the plastic pink flamingo, perhaps the totem of Artifice and Kitsch—nevertheless a potent symbol through which to plumb our troublesome yet powerful visions of ...
Jennifer Price, 2000
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Holocene Extinctions
8.2.1 Vertebrates and their dependants Stork and Lyal (1993) suggested that two louse species, Columbicola extinctus and Campanulotes defectus, went extinct with the passenger pigeon. Just a few hundred years ago, the passenger pigeon  ...
Samuel T. Turvey, 2009
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Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the ...
Craig expressed a faint hope that passenger pigeon specimens might yet be rediscovered in the wild. However, to the best of anyone's knowledge, only a single passenger pigeon remained alive in 1911. That was a female named Martha, ...
Richard W. Burkhardt, 2005
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Conservation of Exploited Species
ALLEE EFFECTS: THREE CLASSIC EXAMPLES The passenger pigeon and the Allee effect Perhaps the most famous case of exploitation and extinction that has implicated the Allee effect is the extermination of the passenger pigeon ...
John D. Reynolds (Ph. D.), 2001
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Ecology and Management of the Mourning Dove
The passenger pigeon was considerably larger than the mourning dove and more highly colored, with a bluish back and reddish underparts. However, it was their distinctive behaviors, particularly the passenger pigeon's colony nesting, that ...
Thomas S. Baskett, 1993
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Catesby's Birds of Colonial America
The passenger pigeon was no doubt one of the best- known and most numerous birds of the colonial period in North America. It was very well known to Lawson; his account, the longest for any species, is given in its entirety following this note.
Alan Feduccia, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PASSENGER PIGEON»

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Maine-made farm goods soon will wind their way to Boston by …
Another barrier: The licensing process for vessels made of wood disappeared with Martha, the world's last passenger pigeon. “The Coast ... «Press Herald, Jul 15»
2
Is sixth mass extinction of living things underway?
Likewise, few people miss the now extinct dodo bird and passenger pigeon. The importance of this interdependence is demonstrated ... «Zanesville Times Recorder, Jul 15»
3
City should help save monarch butterflies -- Steve Kokette
Thank your for Monday's article, "Preserving pollinators," about the demise of the monarch butterfly. In the mid-1800s the passenger pigeon had ... «Madison.com, Jul 15»
4
The paradox of 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty: Disasters rescued …
... repurposed for myriad practical uses, so statues made of the metal became antiquity's equivalent of the passenger pigeon — except for about ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
5
Leverage and Recreation
... Conservancy, stewards of the Fenner Nature Center, are taking over the jobs the Parks Department handled in its passenger pigeon years. «City Pulse, Jul 15»
6
World Famous Hot Sauce Making Its Mark on LBI and in NYC
But Bird Pepper Sauce didn't catch on and soon, like the passenger pigeon, became extinct. Most Americans, before waves of immigrants from ... «The SandPaper, Jul 15»
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Leona E. Esser
The year was 1914. Woodrow Wilson was president, the passenger pigeon became extinct, Charlie Chaplin's most famous character The Little ... «Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3, Jul 15»
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Science explainer: We may not resurrect dinosaurs but other extinct …
Species such as the woolly mammoth and the American passenger pigeon may soon be brought back to life. De-extinction can be described as ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
9
App Revenue: How Artists Can Profit From Video Gaming's Recent …
... Friedberger, whose facetious predictions for the future of music distribution include "passenger pigeon and pony express, that sort of thing… «Billboard, Jul 15»
10
9 Illinois Critters That Could Be Lurking in Your Backyard
Others, including the passenger pigeon, have become extinct. Bison are the biggest mammals to have lived in Illinois. Black bears, which the ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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