Sunday, March 15, 2009

Quesiton - 206

Visual in left is the last known survivor of a subspecies and is named after the person on the right. Identify both.

Answer: The bird is Martha, the last known specimen of the passenger pigeon named after Martha Washington, the first first lady of the United States. Supposedly, they were so numerous that flocks measured 300 miles by 1 mile in size during migration. However, we managed to kill every last one of them in a span of 20 or so years. Vetti and aptly enough passer by (the pigeon gets its name from the French word passager meaning to pass by) got this one. Well done.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Martha-the passenger pigeon named after the 1st First lady of US

passer by said...

martha