Passenger Pigeon

Links to articles on the extinct Passenger Pigeon, which have been transcribed in their entirety for this blog. These items are in addition to the several which have been previously posted. These are not all of the items in my historic ornithology database that pertain to this species, but only those with a focus on this extinct birds' lore or occurrence, historic significance and that typically convey more than a few words or short paragraph.

Articles are presented as published, including variant spelling unless it is a blatant misspelling. Complete bibliographic details conveyed were to find the source material, if interested.

Introduction to this Special Presentation

Chronicles of the extinct Passenger Pigeon in historic newspapers.

The following transcriptions are listed in chronological order.

Pre-1800

• Vast Flights of Pigeons - Caught in Abundance
  
• Great Flight of Pidgeons at Boston
  
• Man Killed by Pidgeon Hunter - Prodigious Flight of Pidgeons
  
• Great Flight of Pigeons - Prodigious Number Brought to Market
  
• Quantities of Pigeons in New York Market
  
• Woman in Bridport Kills Pigeons With Musket
  
• Trees in Canada Universally Covered with Pigeon Nests
  
• Flocks of Pigeons at Cooperstown
  
• Epidemic of Distemper Among Wild Pigeons
  

1800s and 1810s

• Spring Reports of Wild Pigeons in 1803
  
• Something Singular - Pigeons Ravage Fields of Corn
  
• Pigeons Likely to Breed in Kentucky
  
• Extraordinary Number of Wild Pigeons at Maritime Counties
  
• Communications - The Wild Pigeon
  
• Innumerable Flocks of Visiting Pidgeons
  
• Pidgeon Shooting in Pennsylvania
  
• Flocks of Wild Pigeons Among Streets of Boston
  
• Pigeon Reports From New York State
  

1820s

• Pigeon Roost in Ohio
  
• Innumerable Quantities of Pigeons Collecting
  
• Innumerable Pigeons in Catauqua and Cattaraugus Counties
  
• Wild Pigeons at New York Battery Park
  
• Wild Pigeons Return in Unusual Numbers
  
• Numbers of Wild Pigeons at Quebec
  
• Immense Flocks of Pigeons at St. John, New Brunswick
  
• Pigeons - A Commentary from Indiana
  
• Large Flocks of Wild Pigeons - Early Spring
  
• Wild Pigeons at Pittsburgh
  
• Multitudes of Pigeons Over Piqua in Ohio
  
• Wild Pigeons at Philadelphia
  
• Multitudes of Wild Pigeons in Pennsylvania
  
• Wild Pigeon Mischief in Corn Fields of Saratoga County
  
• Wild Pigeons at New York and New Jersey
  
• Air Alive With Pigeons - Woods Thronged With Sportsmen
  
• Mode of Decoying Wild Pigeons in New England
  

1830s

• Numerous Flocks of Wild Pigeons - Pennsylvania
  
• Passenger, or Wild Pigeon - An Extract
  
• Wild Pigeons History from Massachusetts
  
• Phenomenon of Immense Numbers of Wild Pigeons, Maryland
  
• Large Numbers of Wild Pigeons Killed at Ohio
  
• Wild Pigeons Numerous in the Neighborhood, Maryland
  
• Greenville Visited by Myriads of Wild Pigeons, South Carolina
  
• North Carolina Woods Crowded with Wild Pigeons
  
• Wild Pigeons Taken Near Philadelphia
  

1840s

• Reports of Vast Numbers of Pigeons, New York state, Pennsylvania
  
• Enormous Pigeon Roost in Jackson County, Wisconsin
  
• Another Great Pigeon Roost, Illinois
  
• An Uncommon Incident at Dubuque
  
• Plenty of Pigeons in Ohio
  
• Pigeon Roost Discovered Near Holmesville, Mississippi
  
• Spring Brings Immense Flocks of Wild Pigeons, Vermont
  
• Skies at Nashville Hid by Flocks of Wild Pigeons
  
• Wild Pigeons at Buffalo
  
• Wild Pigeons Brought in Quantity to Albany Market
  
• Immense Flocks of Pigeons Over Somerset, Pennsylvania
  
• Fat and Plump Wild Pigeons Killed at Buffalo
  
• Pigeons Pass Over Cincinnati in Magnitudes
  
• Immense Flocks of Wild Pigeons About Sunbury, Pennsylvania
  
• Flight of Pigeons Observed at Fort Hill, New York
  
• Flocks of Pigeons Cross Niagara River
  
• Manner of Catching Wild Pigeons in Connecticut
  
• Immense Numbers of Pigeons in New Jersey and New York
  
• Millions of Pigeons Filling Tennessee Woods
  

1850s

• Large Quantities of Pigeons Flying and in Market, Sunbury, Pennsylvania
  
• Wild Pigeons in Virginia
  
• Pigeons at Easton and in the West
  
• Catching Wild Pigeons at Fawn Township
  
• Pigeons in Woods by Detroit
  
• A Good Days Work Catching Pigeons
  
• Pigeons Roost in Lewis County, New York
  
• Game in Maryland Market
  
• Thousand and Thousands of Pigeons
  
• Pigeons in the New York Market
  
• Pigeons on the Buttermilk in Cattaraugus County
  
• Pigeon Shooting - Cheap, but Rather Sharp Practice
  
• An Epistle from College Green
  
• Pigeon Trade in New York
  
• Wild Pigeon Roost at Rand-Hill
  
• Flock of Wild Pigeons at Columbus
  
• Pigeon Roost in Arkansas
  
• Miles and Clouds of Pigeons
  
• Wild Pigeons in Virginia
  
• Pigeons in Great Numbers in Spotsylvania County
  
• Spring Flight of Pigeons at Terre Haute
  
• Pigeon Reports From Indiana
  
• Wild Pigeon Roost in Helena Parish, Louisiana
  
• Alabama Woods Swarming with Wild Pigeons
  
• Immense Numbers of Wild Pigeons Surrounding St. Clairsville
  
• Pigeons Pulling Corn From Fields in New York
  
• Visit to Pigeon Roost on Wolf Creek
  
• Boston Markets in the Olden Time
  
• Multitudes of Pigeons Killed at Stokes County Roost
  
• Wild Pigeons in Falling Rivers Territory of Campbell County
  
• Millions of Pigeons Over Louisville
  
• Wild Pigeons Appear at Ashtabula
  
• Enormous Flocks of Wild Pigeons Knocked Down With Ease
  
• Pigeon Roost in Decatur County
  
• Citizens Disturbed by Gun Volleys Shot at Pigeons
  
• Wild Pigeons in Mariposa County
  
• Wild Pigeon Business in Massachusetts
  
• Value of Wild Pigeons in Essex County and Boston
  
• Wild Pigeons on the Wing at Ashtabula
  
• A Night in a Pennsylvania Pigeon Roost
  
• Farm and Woods by San Andreas Black With Wild Pigeons
  

1860s

• Wild Pigeons Abound in Fayetteville
  
• Fatal Accident While Hunting Pigeons in Tamarack Swamp
  
• Millions of Wild Pigeons Over Cincinnati
  
• Sky-Rockets Among Pigeons at Cleveland
  
• Great Haul of Pigeons at Covington Pennsylvania
  
• Important to Sportsmen of Ulster County
  
• Ten Miles of Pigeons in Western Ulster County
  
• Pigeon Trade of Michigan
  
• Texas Intelligence - Swarms of Pigeons
  
• Quantities of Pigeons at Davenport Iowa
  
• Thousands of Wild Pigeons Among California Oaks
  
• Pigeon Roost Story from Indiana
  
• Number of Wild Pigeons Bagged in Pennsylvania
  
• Pigeon Hunting in Oneida County New York
  
• Wild Pigeons Netted in Columbia County Pennsylvania
  
• Perfect Clouds of Pigeons Swarm Minnesota Wheat Fields
  
• Wild Pigeons in Vast Numbers in Minnesota
  
• Heavens Black With Wild Pigeons at Dubuque
  
• Millions of Pigeons Nesting at Chatfield Minnesota
  
• Pigeon Harvest at LaCrosse and Sparta
  
• Wild Pigeons in Oregon
  
• Skirmishes All-day After Suffering Pigeons in Wisconsin
  
• Pigeons Flying in Numbers at Urbana
  
• Clouds of Pigeons at Cincinnati
  
• Wild Pigeons Shipped from Cartersburg Indiana
  
• Pigeon Nesting in the Highland Woods of Pennsylvania
  
• Beech Forests in Ohio Alive with Wild Pigeons
  
• Pigeon Shooting Extraordinary at Devils Hole West Virginia
  
• A New Scourge - Whole Fields of Grain Destroyed by Pigeons, Iowa
  
• Milwaukee Market Over-stocked with Wild Pigeons
  
• Wild Pigeons Brought Into Little Rock for Sale
  
• Appearance of Immense Flocks of Pigeons at Pennsylvania
  
• Numerous Flocks of Wild Pigeons at Greenville South Carolina
  
• Virginia News - Wild Pigeons in the Woods
  
• Market Price for Wild Pigeons at Urbana Ohio
  
• Across the River for a Morning's Sport in Arkansas
  
• Hunting Expedition Returns with Quantity of Pigeons
  
• Wild Pigeons Going Southward at Ouachita Louisiana
  

1870s

• Greene County - Immense Pigeon Roost on James Creek, Missouri
  
• Great Flight of Wild Pigeons in New Hampshire
  
• Miscellaneous Reading - A Georgia Pigeon Roost
  
• Sportsmens Harvest - Professional Pigeon Catchers at Wisconsin Roost
  
• Pigeons Spoiling Crop Fields in Wisconsin
  
• Great Pigeon Roost at Kilbourn City in Wisconsin
  
• Enormous Pigeon Roost in Wisconsin Woods
  
• Big Pigeon Hunt by Professional Hunters in Tennessee
  
• Great Virginia Pigeon Roost
  
• Wild Pigeon of California - Ectopistes Migratoria
  
• Millions of Wild Pigeons at Maryland Farm
  
• Wild Pigeons at Bellefontaine in Ohio
  
• Wild Pigeons Congregating Near Mandeville, Missouri
  
• Pigeon Shooting near Sacramento
  
• Large Shipment of Wild Pigeons from Michigan
  
• Large Flocks of Wild Pigeons Infest Missouri Country
  
• Extraordinary Pigeon Roost in Michigan
  
• Pigeon Catching - Trappers Work in Maine
  
• Gunners and Nimrods After Pigeons in Pennsylvania
  
• Acres of Wild Pigeons at Oakland in Georgia
  
• Millions of Wild Pigeons in Texas
  
• Speculations on Wild Pigeon Flights at New Holland, Pennsylvania
  
• Hunting Pigeons in Large Numbers, Pennsylvania
  
• Wild Pigeons Unusually Plentiful at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
  
• Pigeon Invasion in the Niagara District, Canada
  
• Uncounted Millions at Corning Pigeon Roost
  
• Numbers of Wild Pigeons Nesting in Wisconsin
  
• Great Flocks and Millions of Pigeons in New York
  
• Pigeons in New York State
  
• Millions of Pigeons - A Roost Many Miles in Length, Pennsylvania
  
• Huge Pigeon Roost in Pennsylvania
  
• Great Wild Pigeon Roost in Missouri
  
• Wild Pigeon Roost in Missouri
  
• Large Flocks of Wild Pigeons Over Town, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
  
• Millions of Wild Pigeons Pass Over Austin
  
• Wild Pigeons at Laporte, Pennsylvania
  
• Spring Shooting of Wild Pigeons Should Stop, New York and Pennsylvania
  
• Slaughter of the Innocents at Crooked Lake, Michigan
  
• Poisoned Flesh of Wild Pigeons, Michigan
  
• Agent of Society Sends Fine Wild Pigeons, Pennsylvania
  
• Pigeon Roost in the Indian Territory, Oklahoma
  
• City Intelligence - Mountain Pigeons Near Sacramento
  
• After the Pigeons Near Sacramento
  
• Pigeon Activity in Southern Missouri
  
• Pigeon Year in Ulster County, New York
  
• Wild Pigeons Abound on Prairies in Yankton County, South Dakota
  

1880s

• Wild Pigeons Roost in Scott County, Indiana
  
• Pigeons are Very Plenty in Forest County, Pennsylvania
  
• Reports of Georgia Pigeon Roosts
  
• Indian Hunters - How Seneca Indians Capture Young Pigeons, Pennsylvania
  
• Wild Pigeons in Michigan
  
• Sporting Gentlemen at Pigeon Congregation by Black River Falls, Wisconsin
  
• Wild Pigeons Nesting on West Branch of Pine Creek, Pennsylvania
  
• Large Pigeon Roost Near Kilbourn City in Wisconsin
  
• Pigeon Slaughter at Kilbourn City, Wisconsin
  
• Remarkable Pigeon Roost - Forty Acres in a Valley
  
• Large Pigeon Roost in Oregon County, Missouri
  
• Saved by Wild Pigeons — With the Help of a Big Beech Nut Year and a Delaware River Freshet
  
• A Large Sized Pigeon Story
  
• Millions of Pigeons at Great Nesting Grounds in Pennsylvania
  
• Great Pigeon Roost in Going Snake District
  
• Wild Pigeon Shootists in the Foothills of Grass Valley
  

There is a multitude of additional subsequent articles of interest and pertinence to this subject, but they are beyond the scope of the ancient avifauna project.