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The Last Surviving Passenger Pigeon Died In 1914 And Her Body Is Now Frozen Into A 300-Pound Block Of Ice At The Smithsonian's Museum Of Natural History
Now, sadly, they are extinct. On September 1, 1914, Martha, the passenger pigeon, was found dead on the floor of her cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. She was the last surviving member of her species.
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Passenger pigeon: How the world’s most common bird went extinct
Yet in just half a century, they’d disappeared entirely. On 1 September 1914, a passenger pigeon called Martha died at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. She was the last known member of her species.