Ornithologist Kevin Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Ornithologist Kevin Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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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.

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

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