List of bird extinctions by year facts for kids
The accuracy of these dates for bird extinctions varies wildly between one entry and another.
Contents
15th century
c. 1400
16th century
c. 1500
17th century
1650
1680
1681
1690
- Réunion Sheldgoose
- Mascarene Teal
18th century
c. 1700
- Elephant Bird
- Leguat's Rail
- Mauritian Barn Owl (Tyco sauzieri)
- Réunion Solitaire
1722
- Labat's Conure
1750
1760
- Lesser Antillean Macaw
1765
- Jamaican Yellow-headed Macaw
1776
1777
1780
- Bay Thrush
- Mysterious Starling
- Rodriguez Solitaire
1793
- Oceanic Eclectus Parrot
19th century
c. 1800
- Amsterdam Island Duck
- Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw
- Painted Vulture
- Reunion Ring-necked Parakeet
- Rodrigues Parrot
- Moorea Sandpiper
- Tahiti Sandpiper
- Tanna Ground Dove
- Tonga Tabu Tahiti Flycatcher (subsp.)
1801
1825
- Oahu ‘Ōma’o (subsp.), a thrush
1826
1827
1828
1830
- Bonin Grosbeak
- Kangaroo Island Emu (subsp.)
- White Gallinule
1837
1840
1842
- Jamaican Green and Yellow Macaw
1844
c. 1850
- Black-fronted parakeet
- Commerson's Scops Owl
- Kioea, a honeyeater
- Kittlitz's Rail
- Giant Moa (Dinornis maximus)
- Moa (Megalapteryx didinus)
- Rodriguez Little Owl
- Steller's Spectacled Cormorant
- Tasmanian Emu (subsp.)
1851
- Norfolk kākā, a parrot
1853
1859
- Jamaican Pauraque, a nightjar
1860
1864
1868
1869
1870
1873
1874
- Coues's Gadwall, a duck
1875
1879
- Bonin Night Heron
1880
1881
- Jamaican Wood Rail
- Seychelles Parakeet
1884
1887
1890
- Comoro Scops Owl
- Macquarie Island Parakeet
- Oahu Nukupu'u (subsp.),
- Tristan Gallinule, a moorhen
1891
- Lesser Koa-finch
1892
- Guadalupe (Berwick's) Wren (subsp.)
- Puerto Rican Conure, a parrot
- ʻUla-ʻAi-hawane,
1894
- Kona Grosbeak
- Lana'i 'Akioloa (subsp. lanaiensis),
- Lyall's Wren
1895
1896
- Greater Koa-finch
- Maui Nui 'Akialoa (subsp. affinis),
1898
1899
- Culebra Island Amazon, a parrot
20th century
c. 1900
- Bonin Wood Pigeon
- Antiguan Burrowing Owl (subsp.)
- Guadeloupe Burrowing Owl (subsp.)
- Guadalupe Rufous-sided Towhee (subsp. consobrinus), a bunting
- North Island Laughing Owl (subsp. albifacies)
- South Island Laughing Owl (subsp. rubifacies)
- Modest Rail
- North Island Bush Wren (subsp.)
- Queleli, a falcon
- Saint Kitts Puerto Rican Bullfinch (subsp.)
- Tahiti Rail
- Martinique Wren (subsp.)
1901
- Greater Amakihi,
1904
1906
- Chatham Island Bellbird
- Guadalupe Flicker (subsp.), a woodpecker
1907
1908
- Alejandro Selkirk Firecrown (subsp. leyboldi), a hummingbird
1910
- New Zealand merganser
- Carolina Parakeet (subsp. ludoviciana)
- Choiseul Crested Pigeon
- Slender-billed grackle
1911
1914
1916
1918
- Carolina Parakeet (subsp. carolinensis)
- Lānaʻi Hookbill, a honeycreeper
1920
- Delalande's Madagascar Coucal
- Laysan Millerbird (subsp.)
- Lord Howe Island Flycatcher
- Lord Howe Island Vinous-tinted Blackbird (subsp.)
1923
- Laysan 'Apapane (subsp.)
- Iwo Jima Rail
- Lord Howe Island Fantail (subsp.)
- Pink-headed Duck
1925
- Lord Howe Island Starling (subsp.)
1927
1928
1929
- Bering cackling goose (subsp.)
1930
- Oʻahu ʻAkepa (subsp.), a honeycreeper
1931
- Lanai ʻōmaʻo (subsp.), a thrush
1932
- Glaucous macaw
- Heath Hen (subsp.)
1934
1936
- Molokai ʻōmaʻo (subsp.), a thrush
1937
- Lana'i 'Alauahio
- ʻUla-ʻai-hawane
1940
- Hawaiʻi ʻAkialoa
- Oahu 'Akioloa (subsp.)
1941
- Arabian Ostrich (subsp.)
1944
1945
1950
- Grand Cayman Oriole (subsp. bairdi)
- Imperial Woodpecker
- Madagascar Serpent Eagle
- New Caledonian White-throated Eared-nightjar
1952
- Niceforo's Pintail (subsp.)
1959
- Rennell Island Teal (subsp. remissa)
1963
- Kākāwahie, a honeycreeper
1964
1965
- Fiji Bar-winged Rail
- Kauaʻi Nukupuʻu (subsp.)
- New Zealand Bush Wren (subsp.)
1969
- Kauai Akialoa (subsp.)
1970
- Molokai 'Alauahio (subsp. flammea)
1971
- St. Lucia Wren (subsp.)
1980
1985
- Alaotra Grebe
1987
- Kauai Oo
1988
- Maui 'Akepa (subsp.)
1990
- Borreo's Cinnamon Teal
- Hooded Seedeater
- 'O'u
- O'ahu 'Alauahio
- Dusky Seaside Sparrow
- Atitlán grebe
1995
- Maui Nukupu'u
1998
- Kauai Nukupu'u
21st century
c. 2000
- Siau scops owl
2004
- Po'ouli
- Pernambuco pygmy owl
2007
- South Island kōkako
- Cryptic treehunter, an ovenbird
- Cozumel thrasher
2011
See also
- 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
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