The Takeaway The Takeaway
Published by
The Takeaway

Bring Back Martha: The Return of the Extinct Passenger Pigeon

A sketch of the passenger pigeon from 1902.
From PRI (Opens in new window) and WNYC (Opens in new window)
Passenger pigeons ondisplay at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY.
Passenger pigeons ondisplay at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY. (Ben Novak)
Passenger pigeons on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
Passenger pigeons on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. (Ben Novak)
A passenger pigeon specimen at the Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, courtesy of Curator Carla Cicero.
A passenger pigeon specimen at the Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, courtesy of Curator Carla Cicero. (Ben Novak)
of