passenger pigeon en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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A bird of the extinct species †Ectopistes migratorius, formerly endemic to North America.
Revive & Restore, a branch of the Long Now Foundation, is currently attempting to de-extinct the passenger pigeon in a project called The Great Comeback.
2020, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:Martha was a remnant of a species that had once dominated North America; it is estimated that there were as many as four billion – yes, billion – passenger pigeons when the Europeans arrived.
2012 June 27, Helen Lewis, “Sense of an endling”, in New Statesman, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012:
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Translations (36)
umu amimi (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · ja 旅行鳩 (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · de Wandertaube (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · fr colombe voyageuse (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · he יונה נודדת (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · bg странстващ гълъб (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · cho putchee nashoba (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · id merpati penumpang (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · uk мандрівний голуб (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · pot mimi (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · nb vandredue (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · cmn 旅鴿 /旅鸽 (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · is flökkudúfa (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · unm amimi (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · nl trekduif (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · pt pombo-passageiro (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · see jahgowa (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · mia mimia (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · moh oriteʼkó꞉wa (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · es paloma migratoria (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · da amerikanske vandredue (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · fr pigeon migrateur (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · pl gołąb wędrowny (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · it colomba migratrice (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · lt keleivis karvelis (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · ru странствующий го́лубь (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · eo migrokolombo (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · hu vándorgalamb (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · fr tourte voyageuse (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · da vandredue (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · fi muuttokyyhky (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · it piccione migratore (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · cs holub stěhovavý (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · oj omiimii (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · sk holub sťahovavý (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius) · sv vandringsduva (an extinct bird of the species Ectopistes migratorius)