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

Read more about this topic:  List Of Extinct Animals Of North America

Famous quotes containing the word birds:

    “We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “I sowed the seeds of love,
    It was all in the spring,
    In April, May, and June, likwise,
    When small birds they do sing.”
    —Mrs. Fleetwood Habergham (d. 1703)

    “poems direct as what the birds said,
    hard as a floor, sound as a bench,
    mysterious as the silence when the tailor
    would pause with his needle in the air.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)