The newsletter is a day late, as I spent Saturday making my way back home from Berlin, where I spoke at a Wikimedia event, at OEB 2019, and on a panel …

This week’s Columbidae is the red-knobbed imperial pigeon, which lives in the Solomon Islands Archipelago and the Bismarck Archipelago. It is listed as…

This week’s Columbidae is the mourning dove, once known as the Carolina turtledove, once believed to be the closest living relative of the extinct pass…

This week’s Columbidae is the socorro dove, a bird that is extinct in the wild. As the Wikipedia entry laments, the socorro “show little fear of humans…

This week’s Columbidae is the tooth-billed pigeon. Critically endangered and a relative of the extinct Dodo, the tooth-billed pigeon is the national bi…

This week’s Columbidae is the pink pigeon. The bird, which is native to Mauritius, very nearly went extinct in the early 1990s when there were only ten…

This week’s Columbidae is the pink-headed fruit dove, also known as Temminck’s fruit pigeon — named after Coenraad Jacob Temminck, a Dutch zoologist. T…

This week’s pigeon is the kererū, a large, wood pigeon from New Zealand. (Image credits) The bird, which one conservation group describes as “clumsy, d…

This week’s pigeon is an Indian Fantail Pigeon. (Image credits) According to one story, Indian Fantail Pigeons first came to the US in 1926, shipped in…

This week’s Columbidae is a diamond dove. This is a very small pigeon — not much larger than a canary. (Image credits) This week was a very long year. …

This week's Columbidae is a white-winged dove. (Image credits) “Just like a white-winged dove sings a song sounds like she’s singing whoo baby whoo sai…

Moments after I hit “send” on last week’s HEWN, news broke that the head of the MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito, had resigned. But if his departure was supposed…