In the midst of a hail of bombs, and faced with the threat of a poison gas attack, the French commander resorted to his last resource: the carrier pigeon Le Vaillant. This feathered soldier was ...
Reviewed Work: The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania. Its Remarkable History, Habits and Extinction, with Interesting Side Lights on the Folk and Forest Lore of the Alleghanian Region of the Old ...
The noble passenger pigeon's common name comes from the French term pigeon de passage, referring to the massive migrations of these birds across the sky. A flock of passenger pigeons reported in ...