#Ectopistes migratorius

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Paleostream 23/03/2024

WHOOPS GUESS WHO FORGOT TO POST YESTERDAY'S #Paleostream SKETCHES!!!

yesterday we drew Ectopistes migratorius (Passenger Pigeon), Eclectus infectus (Oceanic Eclectus), Kosmoceratops, and Otus frutuosoi (São Miguel scops owl)

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[proton-wobbler]

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

Passenger pigeon were thought to be related to Mourning Dove, based on their outside appearance, but after a 2010 genomic study, it turns out that they're more closely related to the genus Patagioenas, which includes band-tailed pigeon, spot-winged pigeon, red-billed pigeon, and plumbeous pigeon.

Since Ohio is terrible at everything (I can say that, I'm from there), that is where the last confirmed wild passenger pigeon was shot. Martha, the last living passenger pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo (which is also in Ohio).

"These pigeon migrated in enormous flocks, constantly searching for food, shelter, and breeding grounds, and was once the most abundant bird in North America, numbering around 3 billion, and possibly up to 5 billion." Passenger pigeons practiced communal roosting and communal breeding, and their extreme gregariousness may be linked with searching for food and predator satiation- think the way cicadas emerge en masse so that. This is likely a large reason why individuals couldn't continue on themselves, as they needed those large colonies in order to trigger breeding behavior and to find the acorn masts that would sustain their numbers.

Source:

also my roommate's notes of sophomore year ornithology

#in memoriam (joke) #passenger pigeon #Ectopistes migratorius #columbidae #battle royale winner

[birdirectory]

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A specimen of now extinct passenger pigeon preserved at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA.

Some distracting and unnecessary signage elided using Pixelmator.

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[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) © Valeria Pellicer

It hatches from eastern, extinct, last, and wild eggs.

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[amnhnyc]

On September 1, 1914, Martha, the last-known living Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her death at age 29 after a lifetime in captivity marked the disappearance of her once-abundant species from the world. And it made her name synonymous with species extinction at human hands. But what happened?

Before the second half of the nineteenth century, the Passenger Pigeon was the most common bird in the United States, with a population numbering in the billions. Flocks of pigeons flying overhead were so dense that they could darken the skies.  But a combination of overhunting and habitat destruction sent this species into decline, and by the turn of the century, it was considered extinct in the wild.

Photo: Enno Meyer, CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons

#natural history #passenger pigeon #nature #birds #ornithology #extinction

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

(Photo from Atlas Obscura)

Extinction Date- 1914

Habitat- Eastern United States

Size (Weight/Length)- 200 g; 40 cm 

Diet- Nuts; seeds; Berries; Insects; Worms

Cool Facts- Imagine the sky so full of birds that it seemed like night. That’s how John James Audubon described the migration of the passenger pigeon. In the 1800s, passenger pigeons were one of America’s most abundant birds. These huge flocks would feast on acorns, beechnuts, and chestnuts, spreading millions of seeds. Their communal breeding colonies would cause branches to snap by the weight of thousands of birds. When a ‘resource’ seems endless to humans, they always find a way to exploit it. Passenger pigeons were slaughtered in the millions for their feathers to be used in pillows and their meat. Extinction was not defined when the passenger pigeon began their decline. In 1895, the last egg was taken from the wild as a museum specimen and the last wild individual was purposefully shot in 1896. In 1902, the last captive bred passenger pigeon was given to the Cincinnati Zoo, her name being Martha. Martha passed away in 1914 and with her, an entire species.

Rating- 13/10 (One of the most important historical lessons in conservation.)

#animal of the day #animals #birds #pigeons #wednesday #october 4 #passenger pigeon #biology #science #conservation #the more you know #extinct #extinctober

[arthistoryanimalia]

Today is #AudubonDay, commemorating pioneering naturalist and artist John James Audubon who was born #OTD (26 April 1785 - 27 January 1851). I put together this overview of the 5 now extinct and 3 other possibly extinct birds whose images are recorded in The Birds of America for the blog:

Plate 26: Carolina Parrot, 1827 (Carolina Parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis) Plate 62: Passenger Pigeon, 1829 (Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius) Plate 66: Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1829 (Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus principalis) Plate: 185: Bachman’s Warbler, 1834 Bachman’s Warbler, Vermivora bachmanii) Plate 186: Pinnated Grous, 1834 (Heath Hen, Tympanuchus cupido cupido) Plate 208: Esquimaux Curlew, 1834 (Eskimo Curlew, Numenius borealis) Plate 332: Pied Duck, 1836 (Labrador Duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius) Plate 341: Great Auk, 1836 (Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis)

All plate images courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing. The entire digitized collection is available for viewing and downloading here.

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[uwmspeccoll]

A Gone World Feathursday

Yesterday, we featured some woodcuts by the New Jersey-based artist Michael Dal Cerro (b. 1953) from his recently-donated 1992 artists book Small World Alphabet published in Seattle by Grey Spider Press in a limited edition of 75 copies. The book is an abecedarium highlighting the outsized impact our species has had on our planet's environment. Today we show all the woodcut birds presented in his book, and of course the unifying factor between these specific species is that they have all gone extinct through human intervention:

Dodo (Raphus cucullatus): a large flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, part of a clade of extinct flightless birds that were members of the family which includes pigeons and doves. This docile bird that had never known predators was hunted to extinction by the late 17th century.

Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis): a large sea-going flightless bird of the family Alcidae that became extinct by the mid-19th century due to overhunting, particularly for its valuable down feathers used in pillows.

Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido): an extinct subspecies of the Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), a large North American bird in the grouse family. Once extremely common, it became extinct in 1932, due to centuries of overhunting, predation by feral cats, and poaching.

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius): a migratory species of North American pigeon, once the most abundant bird on the continent, that was hunted to extinction by 1914.

View other posts on extinct birds.

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#Feathursday #extinct birds #Michael Dal Cerro #Small World Alphabet #Grey Spider Press #woodcuts #Dodo #Great Auk #Heath Hen #Passenger Pigeon #woodcut artists #abecedarium #abecederia #fine press books #fine press printing #birds #birbs!

[columbidaecontest]

!!!ROUND!!! 1!!!! POLL!!!! 85!!!

[ID: a Russet-crowned quail-dove, perched in a tree, brown and purple. a taxidermy Passenger pigeon, orange underside, grey back and wings, with pink irridecent neck feathers]

the sound of a million birds, wings churning the air, fills the room. the lone pigeon standing on the stage feels its feathers ruffled by a living wind. despite all of this, only a single, translucent pigeon lands in front of it. the cacophony dies down and the match begins.

Russet-crowned quail-dove! Passenger pigeon! exinct vs extant! who do you prefer?

#Russet-crowned quail-dove #Passenger pigeon #polls #pigeons #columbidae #columbidae contest #tournament poll

[onenicebugperday]

@ectopistes-migratorius-flock submitted: Many, many friends from lower Michigan, across several months! A crane fly, tobacco hornworm (I think-- I can't really identify them from tomato hornworms), spiders + slugs, ladybeetle, a different (blurrier) spider, small green caterpillar, and a fly I just thought was neat :) it was slowly swivelling its wings in a circle as it sat, and I've seen others of the same species do it constantly - not sure why they're doing that!

I'd like to ask for IDs for these guys, if you're at all able to narrow it down :) tyvm!

Sure! A great group of pals. The first is a tiger crane fly. The caterpillar is definitely a tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. Tomato hornworms are rare in Michigan. But they’re easy to tell apart by their horn - tobacco hornworms have a red horn and tomato hornworms have a blue horn. A bit hard to see in your photo but it does have a red tip.

Shout out to the ispod in the third photo! Hey lil buddy. I can’t say what the slugs are, but the spider (is it one or several? idk) look like hackledmesh weavers. The beetle of course is an Asian lady beetle and the blurry spider is an eastern parson spider. The caterpillar appears to be one of the whites in the genus Pieris, likely a small white. And finally the fly who waves their wings in a silly manner is a common picture-winged fly. The wing movements are part of courtship, though I don’t know why they do it when they’re alone. Funsies?

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ectopistes-migratorius-flock -> modifiedyincision

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[holyvictim]

lovely @inklore tagged me in this super cute picrew and i couldn’t resist… bc im a sucker for picrews <3

np tags: @corroded-coffin-groupie @transrightsdracula @ectopistes-migratorius-flock @princesseddie @sexyprise @joscphquinn @hauntedmonsterhouseparty @ohcaptains @ghosteghoul @kxngslayers

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Passenger pigeon preserved at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA

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[fearotica]

Tagged by @kawaiibaphomet

Relationship status: Sad

Favorite color(s): Mint green and blood red

Favorite food: A classic veggie burger. Beyond Meat is expensive and I usually buy vegan Boca burgers. I don't remember what real meat tastes like anyway.

Song stuck in my head: I finished Stranger Things season 4 a little late, so Running Up That Hill

Current time: 1:18am on a work night where I have to get up at 8am

Dream trip: I can hardly choose. There are so many places I want to go! Anywhere with a beach sounds great right now.

Last book I read: I Shall be Near to You by Lindsay McGabe. Not my usual genre, but it was the last book I read. If you want to recommend me books, I like horror, ghosts, and monsters.

Last book I enjoyed reading: I recently picked up a bunch of Junji Ito's works in bulk at a local store having a sale. Gotta say Uzumaki, even though this was technically a re-read. I never actually owned my own copy before.

Last book I hated: I regret reading the Mists of Avalon after the controversy with the author.

Favorite thing to cook: I just love to cook in general. Breads and anything I can fry in a pan have to be my favorite.

Favorite spare time craft: Sewing. I make, tailor, or customize nearly everything I wear. I've been sewing my own clothes since I was fourteen.

Niche dislike: Sweets. I don't have much of a taste for sugar. Food I make for myself tends to be either extremely spicy or extremely bland. I do like chocolate though! I tend to buy baker's chocolate since my roommate won't steal it and I can't taste the difference.

Opinion on circuses: I dig the aesthetic but I would never go to one myself.

I'm gonna tag @salandersan, @lilkrissmuffet, @ectopistes-migratorius-flock, @sweets-and-terror and whoever else would like to do this 😊

[cat-boyz]

@ectopistes-migratorius-flock tagged me to post my top seven songs from my on repeat playlist on spotify

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