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The situation is exemplified by Hawaii, where 30% of all known recently extinct bird taxa originally lived. [3] Other areas, such as Guam, have also been hit hard; Guam has lost over 60% of its native bird taxa in the last 30 years, many of them due to the introduced brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis). [4]
Extinct due to overfishing, predation by the sea lamprey which colonized the lakes in the 1940s, and hybridization with other ciscoes. [89] Deepwater cisco: Coregonus johannae: Lakes Michigan and Huron Last collected in Lake Michigan in 1951, and in Lake Huron in 1952. Extinct due to overfishing, sea lamprey predation, and hybridization with ...
The North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) is among dozens of bird species that became extinct after the human settlement of New Zealand. This is a list of New Zealand species 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 ...
Taxidermied Laysan finch (upper left), Laysan honeycreeper (upper middle), and Laysan rail (below), 1903; the latter two are extinct. In 1899, Schauinsland considered the Laysan honeycreeper an example of how a new species may arise through isolation and noted its resemblance to the ʻapapane. [13]
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.
Elephant Bird [1] Leguat's Rail [1] Mauritian Barn Owl (Tyco sauzieri) [1] Réunion Solitaire [1] 1722 Labat's Conure [1] 1750 Guadeloupe Amazon [1] Martinique Amazon [1] 1760 Lesser Antillean Macaw; 1765 Jamaican Yellow-headed Macaw [1] 1776 Réunion Fody [1] 1777 Society Parakeet; 1780 Bay Thrush [1] Mysterious Starling [1] Rodriguez ...
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The Fish and Wildlife Service just delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction.