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You may want to pause for a minute of silence at 1 p.m. on Monday, =
September 1, the centennial of the moment when "Martha" - the last =
Passenger Pigeon on the planet - quietly kicked the bucket at the =
Cincinnati Zoo. Many organizations are acknowledging what is arguably =
the world's most infamous extinction event, including the Royal Ontario =
Museum, the Canadian Museum of Nature, and the Smithsonian Institution.=20


In case you missed it, please read "One Hundred Years after Martha, the =
Last Passenger Pigeon"  from the Summer issue of Bird Studies Canada's =
magazine BirdWatch Canada, written by our Director of National Programs =
Jon McCracken. 
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