A Feathered River Across the Sky
A Feathered River Across the Sky

Author: Joel Greenberg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1620405369

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This beautifully written cautionary tale reveals how passenger pigeons have become extinct and how no series effort was made to protect this species that inspired awe in the likes of John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau and James Fenimore Cooper until it was too late.

Carrier Pigeons
Carrier Pigeons

Author: Judith Janda Presnall

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Published: 2003-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780737718249

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Discusses the types of pigeons used for carrying messages and their use in wartime.

The Passenger Pigeon
The Passenger Pigeon

Author: Errol Fuller

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 140085220X

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A haunting, beautifully illustrated memorial to this iconic extinct bird At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end of the century, the most common bird in North America had vanished from the wild. In 1914, the last known representative of her species, Martha, died in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. This stunningly illustrated book tells the astonishing story of North America's Passenger Pigeon, a bird species that—like the Tyrannosaur, the Mammoth, and the Dodo—has become one of the great icons of extinction. Errol Fuller describes how these fast, agile, and handsomely plumaged birds were immortalized by the ornithologist and painter John James Audubon, and captured the imagination of writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain. He shows how widespread deforestation, the demand for cheap and plentiful pigeon meat, and the indiscriminate killing of Passenger Pigeons for sport led to their catastrophic decline. Fuller provides an evocative memorial to a bird species that was once so important to the ecology of North America, and reminds us of just how fragile the natural world can be. Published in the centennial year of Martha’s death, The Passenger Pigeon features rare archival images as well as haunting photos of live birds.

War Pigeons
War Pigeons

Author: Elizabeth G. Macalaster

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1476680809

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For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for racing in the early 1800s, homing pigeons were later trained by pigeoneers to fly up to 60 mph for hundreds of miles, and served the United States for almost 75 years, through four wars on four continents. Barely weighing a pound, these extraordinary birds carried messages in and out of gas, smoke, exploding bombs and gunfire. They flew through jungles, deserts and mountains, not faltering even when faced with large expanses of ocean to cross. Sometimes they arrived nearly dead from wounds or exhaustion, refusing to give up until they reached their objective. This book is the first complete account of the remarkable service that homing pigeons provided for the American armed forces, from its fledgling beginnings after the Civil War to the birds' invaluable role in communications in every branch of the U.S. military through both World Wars and beyond. Personal narratives, primary sources and news articles tell the story of the pigeons' recruitment and training in the U.S., their deployment abroad and use on the home front.

The Carrier Pigeon
The Carrier Pigeon

Author: John Lane

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1640823743

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The story is about a little homing pigeon named Lucky and a round-faced, redheaded boy named Alex. Join the adventures of Lucky the homing pigeon, Ole Charlie the big rooster, Penny the head hen, and the warmhearted hens that saved Lucky from his demise. In The Carrier Pigeon, readers will also meet Alex, the boy that teaches other children that kindness can go a long, long way. When a young homing pigeon passes by a farmyard and encounters an accident, the hens in the farm do not hesitate to help the young pigeon-even if it means standing up against Ole Charlie, the self-proclaimed king of the barnyard. Read the story and discover how all the characters found a lasting friendship in each other.

Cher Ami: WWI Homing Pigeon
Cher Ami: WWI Homing Pigeon

Author: Joeming Dunn

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1616417080

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Animals have been an influential part of science, technology, and travel throughout time. Cher Ami: WWI Homing Pigeon introduces readers to the historical climate of the 1900s and World War I, background on Cher Ami, a chronology of Cher Ami's mission, and how that mission influenced history. Colorful graphic art, maps, history on homing pigeons, fast facts, and a glossary will bring the historic mission to a younger audience. A great supplement to your history graphic novel collection.

The Long Flight Home
The Long Flight Home

Author: Alan Hlad

Publisher: A John Scognamiglio Book

Published: 2019-06-25

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1496721691

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A USA Today Bestseller Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan—loyal, intelligent, beautiful—but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather’s desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, young crop-duster pilot Ollie Evans decides to join Britain’s Royal Air Force. His quest brings him to Epping and the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert mission to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Many will not survive. Those that do will bring home crucial information. Soon a friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when his plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. Yet Duchess will become an unexpected lifeline, relaying messages between Susan and Ollie as war rages on—and proving, at last, that hope is never truly lost. “Hlad adeptly drives home the devastating civilian cost of the war.” —Booklist