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The brown thrasher is the state bird of Georgia. This list of birds of Georgia includes species documented in the U.S. state of Georgia and accepted by the Checklist and Records Committee of the Georgia Ornithological Society (GOSRC). As of August 2020, there are 427 species definitively included in the official list.
Passenger pigeon. The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived from the French word passager, meaning "passing by", due to the migratory habits of the species. The scientific name also refers to its migratory characteristics.
National Museum of Natural History. Known for. Last known living passenger pigeon. Martha (c. 1885 – September 1, 1914) was a passenger pigeon, the last known of her species; she was named "Martha" in honor of Martha Washington, the first lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
Pigeons, however, are not suited for factory farming, and between the rise of that method of food production and also people’s association of feral pigeons with filth, they are not longer a ...
Columba argentina Bonaparte, 1855 (possibly extinct) OR: western Malaysia. 25. Andaman wood pigeon. Columba palumboides (Hume, 1873) OR: Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 26. Japanese wood pigeon. Columba janthina Temminck, 1830.
Prehistorically extinct species of extant and recently extinct genera. Slender-billed greenfinch, Chloris aurelioi (Tenerife, Canary Islands) Trias greenfinch, Chloris triasi (La Palma, Canary Islands) Greater Azores bullfinch, Pyrrhula crassa (Graciosa, Azores) [32] Kauaʻi finch, Telespiza persecutrix (Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, Hawaiian Islands)
Columbicola extinctus. Columbicola extinctus, also known as the passenger pigeon chewing louse, is an extant species of phtilopterid louse. It was once believed to have become extinct with its only known host, the passenger pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ), prior to its rediscovery living on band-tailed pigeons ( Patagioenas fasciata ).
This page is a list of the genera of pigeons and doves (the family Columbidae), which are a clade of bird species of cosmopolitan distribution. The group has 310 living species. The group has 310 living species.