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The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture and the largest North American land bird. It became extinct in the wild in 1987 when all remaining wild individuals were captured, but has since been reintroduced to northern Arizona and southern Utah (including the Grand Canyon area and Zion National Park), the coastal mountains of California, and northern Baja California ...
It was declared extinct in 1914, upon the death of the last known survivor of the species, Martha, at the Cincinnati Zoo, 20 years after the species became extinct in the wild. [27] The passenger pigeon is one of the few recently extinct bird species that has been proposed for “de-extinction”.
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
Eight of the extinct bird species were found in Hawaii, including the Po`ouli, which was last seen in 2004. The Po`ouli is the most recently seen species of all 21 animals on the list.
The Fish and Wildlife Service just delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction.
Map of North America. This is a list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] Recently extinct animals in the West Indies and Hawaii are in their own respective lists.
However, technological advances are making it possible to encounter extinct species in new ways. With a few clicks, Digital sound archives can bring extinct birds (briefly) back to life
The BirdLife Extinct Birds species list Archived 2011-12-01 at the Wayback Machine; The BirdLife Data Zone containing factsheets for all Birds species Archived 2011-12-27 at the Wayback Machine; Extinct Birds Stock Photography Archived 2002-01-21 at the Wayback Machine; Extinct Birds from John James Audubon's Birds of America; New Zealand ...