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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”.
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 ...
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
In November 1859, Henry David Thoreau, writing in Concord, Massachusetts, noted that "quite a little flock of [passenger] pigeons bred here last summer," [55] while only seven years later, in 1866, one flock in southern Ontario was described as being 1.5 km (0.93 mi) wide and 500 km (310 mi) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3. ...
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 ...
A conservation center in California has taken in hundreds of malnourished birds that experts say are facing weather-driven starvation.. Care facilities have received more than 800 brown pelicans ...
Extinct due to destruction of nesting habitat by introduced goats, and predation by cats. [56] Zacatecas Worthen's sparrow: Spizella wortheni browni: Northwest Zacatecas, Mexico Last recorded in 1961. Extinct due to habitat loss to agriculture, overgrazing and erosion by cattle herding, and decline of native herbivores which maintained the bird ...