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The birds were killed in great numbers, and a widespread pigeon meat industry developed. Some environmental legislation was put into place to protect the declining passenger pigeon, but it did little to improve their populations. Due to their congregational breeding habits, captive breeding was nigh impossible, and populations further ...
List of extinct bird species since 1500; Lists of extinct animals; List of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands; List of extinct animals of Martinique and Guadeloupe; List of extinct animals of Réunion
Late Pleistocene in northern Spain, by Mauricio Antón.Left to right: wild horse; woolly mammoth; reindeer; cave lion; woolly rhinoceros Mural of the La Brea Tar Pits by Charles R. Knight, including sabertooth cats (Smilodon fatalis, left) ground sloths (Paramylodon harlani, right) and Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi, background)
The species — several birds, mussels, two species of fish and the Little Mariana fruit bat last seen in Guam in 1968 — have been listed as endangered for decades, according to the U.S. Fish ...
The Fish and Wildlife Service just delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction.
A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct ... Their findings suggest there is a 99.6% chance that the bird no longer exists and went extinct around the ...
Relatively little is known about these extinct birds. The species became extinct from a large range of problems, including mosquito-transmitted diseases (which caused the species to retreat to higher ground, ultimately retreating to high-altitude montane forests in the Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve ), introduction of mammalian predators, and ...
Officially classified as critically endangered due to persistent rumors of wild birds, but probably extinct. Cuban macaw, Ara tricolor (Cuba, late 19th century) A number of related macaw species have been described from the West Indies, but are not based on good evidence. Several prehistoric forms are now known to have existed in the region ...