Included with Museum admission.

Once considered the most abundant bird species on the planet, Passenger Pigeons became extinct 100 years ago. Today, the ROM houses the largest collection of Passenger Pigeons in the world along with representatives of all of the other North American extinct bird species. How did we get them? What are we doing with them? Join us as we trace the causes of the extinctions and the cast of characters that brought the collections to the ROM.

Speaker: Mark Peck, Collection Technician, Ornithology. Mark has been with the ROM since the summer of 1979, starting his museum career as a camp cook during faunal surveys in northern Ontario. He is now pigeon-holed and will not leave.