Around this time, 102 years ago…

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Around this time, 102 years ago, the last Passenger Pigeon on earth died in a cage in a zoo in Ohio.

Martha - the last passenger pigeon
By Seppo Leinonen

 

Photo: John F Hemenway
Photo: John F Hemenway
Image: Carry Akroyd
Image: Carry Akroyd
Image: Carry Akroyd
Image: Carry Akroyd

 

 

A Message from Martha by Mark Avery is published by Bloomsbury – for reviews see here.

 

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  1. I loved Message from Martha. I lent mine to a non birding friend I think he summoned it up perfectly “I can’t even comprehend the numbers or the speed of extinction, we’re really are a drain on to this planet” he’s lent it to his daughter for uni. Last time I see that book

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