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passenger pigeon † 
a migratory wild pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, which appeared in immense flocks during August up to the late 19th century, becoming extinct by 1914.
See also: pigeon wild pigeon wood pigeon
- 1852 This falcon is not rare throughout the Mackenzie, where it preys on the passenger pigeons and smaller birds.
- 1908 But the bird most missed is the passenger pigeon.
- 1962 The prairie chicken, once numbered in hundreds of thousands, may follow the passenger pigeon which darkened the sky in huge flocks.
- 1852 This falcon is not rare throughout the Mackenzie, where it preys on the passenger pigeons and smaller birds.