Notes USNM No. 30936 Summary United States National Museum birds exhibit in the Natural History Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, featuring Martha, the last known ...

Martha was the last passenger pigeon, the last of the billions of the most abundant bird in North America. Flocks 300 miles long blocked the sun like a glorious winged eclipse, darkening the land ...

When a 29-year-old pigeon named Martha -- for Martha Washington -- died at the Cincinnati Zoo at 1 p.m. on Sept. 1, 1914, it became possibly the only time in history that the exact moment of a ...

On that late summer afternoon, the last passenger pigeon in the world, a 29-year-old named Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo. The nation’s most common bird had gone extinct. When I first learned ...

“Martha,” the last known passenger pigeon, died at the Cincinnati Zoo on Sept. 1, 1914. “From billions to none in less than a century,” it was said of this appalling tragedy.

The Jan.15 meeting of the Horicon Marsh Bird Club will feature environmental historian, artist, author, educator, musician and speaker Kelly Bleich of Randolph.

Notes USNM No. 29534 Summary United States National Museum birds exhibit in the Natural History Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, featuring Martha, the last known ...