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Ornithologist Kevin Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Caption: Kevin Johnson, an ornithologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois, led a genetic study that placed the extinct passenger pigeon in the family tree of pigeons and doves.

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau.

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Related news release: Long-extinct passenger pigeon finds a place in the family tree