List of Extinct Animals of North America - Birds

Birds

Prehistoric extinctions (begin Holocene to 1500 CE)

  • Giant condor Aiolornis incredibilis
  • Californian Turkey Meleagris californica, USA, 10,000 BCE.
  • Cathartornis gracilis
  • Chendytes lawi California, 1800 BCE.
  • Gymnogyps amplus
  • Gymnogyps varonai
  • Merriam's Teratorn North America, 8000 BCE.
  • Pleistocene Black Vulture Western USA.
  • Saint Croix Macaw St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
  • Puerto Rican Obscure Bunting Puerto Rico
  • Antillean Cave Rail
  • Pavo californicus
  • Phoenicopterus minutus California, USA.
  • Phoenicopterus copei W North America and C Mexico.
  • Daggett's Eagle La Brea and Carpinteria in southern California, and in Nuevo León in Mexico, 13,000 BCE.
  • La Brea Stork Ciconia maltha W and S USA, and Cuba, 10,000 BCE.
  • Cuban Teratorn Cuba
  • Teratornis woodburnensis North America
  • Woodward's Eagle Amplibuteo woodwardi

Recent extinctions (1500 CE to present)

  • Labrador Duck
  • Heath Hen
  • Cuban Red Macaw Ara tricolor, 1860s
  • Spectacled Cormorant
  • Atitlán Grebe
  • Bermuda Night Heron
  • Virgin Islands Screech-Owl
  • Mauge's Parakeet
  • Carolina Parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis
  • Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius
  • Guadalupe Caracara
  • Bahaman Barn Owl
  • Brace's Emerald
  • Gould's Emerald
  • Great Auk
  • Grand Cayman Thrush Turdus ravidus
  • Dusky Seaside Sparrow Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens
  • Guadeloupe Burrowing Owl Speotyto cunicularia guadeloupensis
  • Guadeloupe Parakeet Aratinga labati (18th century)
  • Guadeloupe Parrot Amazona violacea (1779)
  • Lesser Antillean Macaw Ara guadeloupensis (1760)
  • Martinique House Wren Troglodytes aedon martinicensis
  • Martinique Parrot Amazona martinicana (1779)
  • Slender-billed Grackle Quiscalus palustris

Possibly Extinct

  • Guadalupe Storm-petrel
  • Bachman's Warbler
  • Eskimo Curlew
  • Ivory-billed Woodpecker
  • Imperial Woodpecker
  • Semper's Warbler

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