Bob Mauritsen requested information on the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes
migratorius). The following is an excerpt from a longer bibliography of
the more recent and accessible publications:

David E. Blockstein and Harrison B. Tordoff, "A Contemporary Look at
the Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon," American Birds, 39 (1985):
845
I.L. Brisbin, "The Passenger Pigeon: A Study in the Ecology of
Extinction," Modern Game Breeding, (October 1968): 13
Enrique H. Bucher, "The Causes of Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon,"
Current Ornithology, 9 (1992): 1
T[im] R. Halliday, "The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes
migratorius, and Its Relevance to Contemporary Conservation," Biological
Conservation 17 (1980): 157
Thomas W. Neumann, "Human-Wildlife Competition and the Passenger
Pigeon: Population Growth from System Destabilization," Human Ecology
13 (1985): 389
A.W. Schorger, The Passenger Pigeon (Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1955)


dale goble
moscow, idaho