In memory of Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon who died 100 years ago today, the 1st September 1914, in Cincinnati Zoo, USA.
The Dodo, Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon, Eskimo Curlew, Guam Flycatcher, Ivory Billed Woodpecker and many others…where they have gone, primarily as a result of the stupidity and avarice of mankind, others are following, regrettably at an ever increasing rate, which is why we naturalists do what we do, in the hope that we might at least slow down that rate if not stop it altogether.