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The Fish and Wildlife Service just delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction.
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 ...
Lighter Side. Politics. Science & Tech. Sports. Weather. 24/7 ... Their findings suggest there is a 99.6% chance that the bird no longer exists and went extinct around the time of the last record ...
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 ...
Six sihek (Guam kingfisher) have been released into the tropical forests of Palmyra Atoll
Subfossil remains and remnants of the birds that were brought to Europe in the 17th century show that dodos were very large birds, measuring about 62.6–75 cm (24.6–29.5 in) in height. [38] [39] The bird was sexually dimorphic; males were larger and had proportionally longer beaks. Weight estimates have varied from study to study.
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.
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".