Martha Week: 100 Years Since We Lost The Passenger Pigeon

Today marks the 100 year anniversary of the death of Martha, the last of her species, the Passenger Pigeon. With her death our planet lost another species forever to extinction.

Martha
Martha as a mounted specimen, by Robert W. Shufeldt, 1921

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Spurwing Plover on March 13, 2021 at 7:34 AM wrote:
THEY WERE ONCE SO MANY IT TOOK DAYS FOR A FLOCK TO PASS OBERHEARD

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