passenger pigeon in English

noun
1
an extinct long-tailed North American pigeon, noted for its long migrations in huge flocks. It was relentlessly hunted, the last individual dying in captivity in 1914.
Some have become extinct, the great auk, the passenger pigeon and the famous dodo bird have all disappeared.

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1. The passenger pigeon needs no protection.

2. We're also going to push ahead with the passenger pigeon.

3. The passenger pigeon has 1.3 billion base pairs in its genome.

4. The passenger pigeon has 1. 3 billion base pairs in its genome.

5. Okay, the closest living relative of the passenger pigeon is the band-tailed pigeon.

6. They're going to work on the genomes of the passenger pigeon and the band- tailed pigeon.

7. They're going to work on the genomes of the passenger pigeon and the band-tailed pigeon.

8. If you replace those bits with passenger pigeon bits, you've got the extinct bird back, cooing at you.

9. The significance of the disappearance of the buffalo and the passenger pigeon was not fully comprehended until much later.

10. It was extinction by dilution, and to the ornithologists it was just as tragic as the more dramatic demise of the passenger pigeon or the Carolina parakeet.

11. So there's genes for the short tail in the band- tailed pigeon, genes for the long tail in the passenger pigeon, and so on with the red eye, peach- colored breast, flocking, and so on.

12. So there's genes for the short tail in the band-tailed pigeon, genes for the long tail in the passenger pigeon, and so on with the red eye, peach-colored breast, flocking, and so on.