Personal memory by Bob Sauerbrey
1950 • Cincinnati, OH, USA
Martha was the last passenger pigeon know to be in existence. She died at the Cincinnati Zoo, and when I was a kid, her preserved body was still in the birdhouse at the same zoo where she lived and died--I always felt a connection and felt grief not to have seen her fly.
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