TOP 10 EXTINCT ANIMALS

Traveling pigeon. Extinct in 1914. It has been more than a century since this bird disappeared, the most abundant in North America in its day. Its fat, meat and plumage were very demanded, creating the figure of the professional hunter of traveling or migratory pigeon.

In 1900 a child shot at the last wild specimen, and fourteen years later the last pigeon of this class in captivity died of natural causes.