The last passenger pigeon, named Martha, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo on Sept. 1, 1914. The Peabody exhibit features three bird specimens from the museum’s collections, plus a nest and an ...

The passenger pigeon was a colonial and gregarious bird and needed large numbers for optimum breeding conditions. It was not possible to reestablish the species with a few captive birds. The small ...

The Last Passenger Pigeon Died 100 Years Ago Today. ... images from the 2025 UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition 15 riveting images from the 2025 UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition.

The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died exactly a century ago at the Cincinnati Zoo. The Two-Way. America. The Flight Of The Passenger Pigeon, Now 100 Years Extinct. September 1, 2014 2:15 PM ET. By .

In 1900, a Ohio boy shot the last wild passenger pigeon, and in 1914, the last captive pigeon, Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo. Author and naturalist JOEL GREENBERG tells the story of these ...

It was the moment that humanity learned we had the awesome power to erase an entire species off the face of the Earth in the scientific equivalent of a blink of an eye: The passenger pigeon went ...

The story of Martha the passenger pigeon elicits both nostalgia and remorse for Cincinnati, the city that protected this bird, the last of her species, in a place where conservation is key.

The Lesson of the Last Passenger Pigeon. Martha, ... Resize. In April 1896, a flock of American passenger pigeons was discovered nesting in a forest outside Bowling Green, Ohio.

The Cincinnati Zoo remembers the last known passenger pigeon with a renovated memorial 100 years after the bird's death at the zoo. Skip to content. NOWCAST WLWT News 5 at 11:00.

Once the most ubiquitous bird in North America, the passenger pigeon had shrunk from countless billions to this single of flock of 250,000. News of the find was telegraphed across the country ...