Record #:

40573

Author(s):

Malinowski, Tonya

Abstract:

Discovery Place’s collections manager keeps up with items that help this museum fulfill its mission: to provide STEM related programs, exhibitions, and events for people of all ages. Among the 70,000 plus items are 3,800 year old Mayan figurines and a male passenger pigeon collected in New York in 1884.

Source:

Charlotte Magazine (NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 24 Issue 7, July 2019, p29-21 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Charlotte--museums; Discovery Place (Charlotte); STEM education ; Passenger pigeons; Exhibitions; Pigeons--North Carolina; Museums--Charlotte; Museums--Acquisitions; Discovery Place--teaching collection--Charlotte schools

Record #:

12678

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Less than a century ago, pigeons were predominant in North Carolina, with two billion pigeons counted in one flock. Witness W. C. Allen recorded a tale about the migration of a 200-mile-long flock of pigeons as it was starting from a resting place for a flight further north. Today, there isn't a single one of these passenger pigeons in the world.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 29 Issue 6, Aug 1961, p11-12, il

Subject(s):

Pigeons--North Carolina