Passenger pigeon

The feather mite Meitingsunes zenadourae, found on preserved passenger pigeon skins, likely survived the bird's extinction because it parasitizes a limited number of closely related hosts.

The passenger pigeon formerly lived in eastern Canada and the United States; it is extinct, and its last record in the wild was in 1914.

The passenger pigeon was very common in North America until its extinction at the beginning of the twentieth century.