Ectopistes migratorius

IOC Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Classis: Aves • Superordo: Neognathae • Ordo: Columbiformes • Familia: Columbidae • Genus: Ectopistes • Species: Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)

Vernacular names

English: Passenger Pigeon · Bahasa Indonesia: Merpati penumpang · Česky: Holub stěhovavý · Dansk: Amerikanske vandredue · Deutsch: Wandertaube · Esperanto: Migrokolombo · Français: Pigeon migrateur · 한국어: 여행비둘기 · עברית: יונה נודדת · Nederlands: Trekduif · 日本語: リョコウバト · Norsk bokmål: Vandredue · Português: Pombo-passageiro · Suomi: Muuttokyyhky · Svenska: Vandringsduva · 中文: 旅鴿 ·

Note: For IOC classification 3.1, this is currently the only living species in the genus Ectopistes.

IOC link: Ectopistes migratorius † (Linnaeus, 1766) in order Columbiformes

Paleobiology Database link: Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus 1758)

ITIS link: Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)

IUCN: Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) (extinct)

Egg [edit]

Stuffed specimens [edit]

Specimen at Cincinnati Zoo
Specimen at Boston Museum of Science
Specimen at Cincinnati Zoo
Specimens in the Vanderbilt Museum, New York
Specimens in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Stuffed passenger pigeon Ectopistes migratorius, Bird Gallery, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
National Museum of Natural History, Washington

Photography [edit]

Adult female passenger pigeon. By Mr. J.G. Hubbard at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1898, and represent birds in the aviary of Dr. C.O. Whitman.
Young bird