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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
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 ...
Extinct Birds from John James Audubon's Birds of America; New Zealand Extinct Birds List; The Extinction Website; Naturalis – Extinct Birds Archived 2009-10-25 at the Wayback Machine: 3D images of extinct bird species in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History (Leiden, Netherlands). 13 newly-discovered birds declared extinct ...
The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (/ k ɑː ˈ w ɑː. iː ˈ oʊ. oʊ /) or ʻōʻōʻāʻā (Moho braccatus) was the last member of the ʻōʻō genus within the Mohoidae family of birds from the islands of Hawaiʻi. The entire family is now extinct. It was previously regarded as a member of the Australo-Pacific honeyeaters (family Meliphagidae). [7]
The Fish and Wildlife Service just delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction.
This article is a list of biological species, subspecies, and evolutionary significant units that are known to have become extinct during the Holocene, the current geologic epoch, ordered by their known or approximate date of disappearance from oldest to most recent.
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 ...
Bachman's warbler (Vermivora bachmanii) is a possibly extinct passerine migratory bird. [3] This warbler was a migrant, breeding in swampy blackberry and cane thickets of the Southeastern and Midwestern United States and wintering in Cuba.