#passenger pigeon
A Traveller Wandering
Alice “Allie” Cook watches a retreating flock of passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) – Cass County, Michigan c. 1866
Ink & watercolour, 2017
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“But presently the gray dawn stole over the world, the birds piped up, then the sun rose and poured light and comfort all around, everything was fresh and dewy and fragrant, and life was a boon again”
– Mark Twain
Ectopistes migratorius (Passenger pigeon)
Extinct 1914
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Illustration for International Day for Tolerance.
On this day, 104 years ago, the last passenger pigeon on earth died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her name was Martha and she was almost 30 years old. John James Audubon, who depicted these beauties (one of 435 hand-colored copper engravings in our double-elephant folio Birds of America), could never have conceived they would be extinct a century later…
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