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Here’s your chance to see the last passenger pigeon

Martha, last of her kind, looks pretty good after a century of extinction

Martha the last passenger pigeon

A FINAL LOOK  Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, lived most of her life in the Cincinnati Zoo and died there 100 years ago.

Don Hurlbert/Smithsonian Institution

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

For the first time this century, one of the world’s most famous bird specimens has come out of storage for public display.