List of possibly extinct birds
editIUCN Red List bird species that are listed as "Possibly Extinct"
editCommon Name - Scientific Name - Distribution - Year of last confirmed recording
- Pink-headed Duck - Rhodonessa caryophyllacea - Bangladesh; India; Myanmar - 1935
- Jamaican Petrel - Pterodroma caribbaea - Bahamas; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Jamaica - 1879
- Guadalupe Storm-petrel - Hydrobates macrodactylus - Mexico - 1912
- Samoan Moorhen - Pareudiastes pacificus - Samoa - 1873
- New Caledonian Buttonquail - Turnix novaecaledoniae - New Caledonia - 1911 (single record)
- Javan Lapwing - Vanellus macropterus - Indonesia (Jawa) - 1940
- Eskimo Curlew - Numenius borealis - Americas - 1963
- Siau Scops-owl - Otus siaoensis - Indonesia - 1866 (single record)
- Pernambuco Pygmy-owl - Glaucidium mooreorum - Brazil - 2001
- New Caledonian Nightjar - Eurostopodus exul - New Caledonia - 1939 (single record)
- Jamaican Poorwill - Siphonorhis americana - Jamaica - 1860
- Turquoise-throated Puffleg - Eriocnemis godini - Ecuador - 1850
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Campephilus principalis - United States & Cuba - 1944 & 1987
- Imperial Woodpecker - Campephilus imperialis - Mexico - 1956
- New Caledonian Lorikeet - Charmosyna diadema - New Caledonia
- Sinu Parakeet - Pyrrhura subandina - Colombia - 1949
- Glaucous Macaw - Anodorhynchus glaucus - South America - 1936 (zoo specimen)
- South Island Kokako - Callaeas cinereus - New Zealand - 2007
- Ua Pou Monarch - Pomarea mira - French Polynesia - 1975
- Olomao - Myadestes lanaiensis - Hawaii - 1980
- Oahu Alauahio - Paroreomyza maculate - Hawaii - 1985
- Ou - Psittirostra psittacea - Hawaii - 1989
- Kauai Nukupuu - Hemignathus Hanapepe - Hawaii - 1899
- Maui Nukupuu - Hemignathus affinis - Hawaii - 1994
- Maui Akepa - Loxops ochraceus - Hawaii - 1988
- Bachman's Warbler - Vermivora bachmanii - Cuba; United States - 1988
References
editFurther reading
edit- IUCN Red List version 2020-3. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved January 2022.
- Birdlife Data Zone "BirdLife Data Zone". datazone.birdlife.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition "Clements Checklist". www.birds.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- IOC World Bird List Version 12.1 "IOC World Bird List – Version 12.1". Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- Rewild.org Lost Birds "lost birds". www.rewild.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- EDGE of Existence "Species". EDGE of Existence. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- List of critically endangered birds