Mark your calendar: 95 years ago today, on September 1, 1914 at 9:32 a.m. (Central Standard Time) the last known passenger pigeon on earth died at the Cincinnati Zoo. The bird's name was Martha.
It is estimated that at one time, one-quarter of all birds in North America were passenger pigeons. Today, they are extinct.
- I took the photograph of the preserved Martha at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. on a visit in 2005.
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