Passenger Pigeon, Stamp from Cuba, 1974 / Paloma Migratoria, Sello de Cuba 1974.

This Cuban Stamp from 1974 is of the now extinct Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes Migratorius), known in Cuba as the "Paloma Migratoria". They are Cuban accounts from the 18th century of Passenger Pigeons being sold in the Havana food markets. The Passenger Pigeon would reach Cuba in its migration but never did so in any great numbers, as far as the few reports that exist attest. The Passenger Pigeon was hunted into extinction in North America. The last known Passenger Pigeon in captivity (named Martha) was kept in the Cinncinati, Ohio Zoo where she died on September 1st, 1914. There is a Memorial Statue at the Cinncinati Zoo which was put up in her honor and that of her once numerous and beautiful species.