#endling

remember me as you pass by

as you are now so once was I

as I am now you will surely be

where is everyone?

Lonesome George, the last of his kind.

Chelonoidis Niger Abingdonii, "Pinta Island Tortoise"

At the time they were alive, passenger pigeons where the worlds most abundant bird species with numbers up to 5 billion in the wild and flocks reported to take hours to pass overhead.

Passenger pigeons were sexually diamporphic, with males being brighter in color and larger than their female counterparts.

From their massive numbers and sweeping flocks, the endling of their species (An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies), known as Martha, passed in 1914, a female who lived to about 29 years old in the Cincinnati zoo.

Upon her death, the species was declared extinct.

cynocephalus

8 x 11 in woodcut print

[ID: an illustration of a dodo bird, a fat grey flightless bird with yellow beak and legs, and three tail feathers. It is on a blue-yellow gradient background with white dots. End.]