June 17, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Ariail
June 15, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Ariail
June 12, 2015
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Ariail
One hundred years ago, a 29-year-old bird named Martha sat in an enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. This bird had lived in captivity her entire life and, during the last four years of her life, had become the last of her kind. In a cage on September 1, 1914, the last known living Passenger Pigeon breathed her last and, with that final breath, the last remaining Passenger Pigeon was gone. The last of a species that numbered nearly 5 billion at the time of the European settlement of North America died, and the most numerous bird species on the face ...
May 13, 2015
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By Josh Arrants
C-I contributing columnist
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Ariail
