birds

List of recently extinct birds

English or local nameScientific nameRangeLast seen
Kiritimati sandpiperProsobonia cancellataKiritimati1850s
Tongatapu railGallirallus hypoleucusTongatapu1777
Antioquia brown-banded antpittaGrallaria milleri gilesiColombia1878
North Island bush wrenXenicus longipes stokesiNew Zealand (North Island)1955
South Island bush wrenXenicus longipes longipesNew Zealand (South Island)1968
Stead’s bush wrenXenicus longipes variabilisStewart Island1972
Red-faced star finchNeochmia ruficauda ruficaudaAustralia2000
Cuban solitaire (retrusus)Myadestes elisabeth retrususIsla de la Juventud1970s
North Island stoutlegged wrenPachyplichas jagmiNew Zealand (North Island)1400 ?
South Island stoutlegged wrenPachyplichas yaldwiniNew Zealand (South Island)1400 ?
King Island emuDromaius aterKing Island1822
Kangaroo Island emuDromaius novaehollandiae baudinianiusKangaroo Island1836 ?
Tasmanian emuDromaius novaehollandiae diemenensisTasmania1873
North Island giant moaDinornis novaezealandiaeNew Zealand (North Island)14th or 15th century
Réunion pigeonNesoenas duboisiRéunion1689
South Island giant moaDinornis robustusNew Zealand (South Island)14th or 15th century
Little bush moaAnomalopteryx didiformisNew Zealand14th or 15th century
Passenger pigeonEctopistes migratoriusNorth America1914
DodoRaphus cucullatusMauritiusaround 1690
Haast’s eagleAquila mooreiNew Zealand14th or 15th century
Saint Helena hoopoeUpupa antaiosSaint HelenaEarly 16th century
South Island gooseCnemiornis calcitransNew Zealand (South Island)1400
Saint Helena cuckooNannococcyx psixSaint Helena18th century
Réunion ibisThreskiornis solitariusRéunion1710 to 1715
Great aukPinguinus impennisNorth Atlantic1852
Himalayan quailOphrysia superciliosaHimalaya (North India)1876
Aldabra brush warblerNesillas aldabranusAldabra1984
Amsterdam wigeonMareca mareculaAmsterdam Island18th century
Colombian grebePodiceps andinusColombia1977
Ula-ai-hawaneCiridops annaBig Island (Hawaii)1892
Antigua burrowing owlAthene cunicularia amauraAntigua, St. Kitts, Nevis19th century
Antioquia brush finchAtlapetes blancaeColombiaRediscovered in 2018
Arabian ostrichStruthio camelus syriacusArabian Peninsula1966
Yellow-shouldered parrotAmazona barbadensis canifronsAruba1940s
Ascension night heronNycticorax olsoniAscension16th century
Ascension crakeMundia elpenorAscension17th century
Atitlán grebePodilymbus gigasLago de Atitlán1989
Helmeted guineafowlNumida meleagris sabyiMorocco1950
New Zealand merganserMergus australisAuckland Islands1902
Cackling gooseBranta hutchinsii asiaticaCommander Islands, Kuril Islands1914 or 1929
Bermuda towheePipilo naufragusBermuda17th century
Bermuda night heronNyctanassa carcinocatactesBermuda17th century
Semper’s warblerLeucopeza semperiSaint Lucia1961
Makira woodhenPareudiastes silvestrisMakira1950s
Bonin thrushZoothera terrestrisChichi-jima1830s
Bonin grosbeakChaunoproctus ferreorostrisChichi-jima1830s ?
Bonin wood pigeonColumba versicolorOgasawara Islands1889
Cinnamon tealAnas cyanoptera borreroiColombia20th century
Brace’s emeraldChlorostilbon braceiNew Providence19th century
Society parakeetCyanoramphus ulietanusRaiatea18th century
Spectacled cormorantUrile perspicillatusBering Island1850
Cebu bar-bellied cuckooshrikeCoracina striata cebuensisCebu20th century
Cebu hanging parrotLoriculus philippensis chrysonotisCebu20th century
Philippine orioleOriolus steerii assimilisCebu2001 ?
Cebu blackish cuckooshrikeCoracina coerulescens alteraCebu20th century
White-bellied woodpeckerDryocopus javensis cebuensisCebu20th century
Chatham bellbirdAnthornis melanocephalaChatham Islands1906
Chatham fernbirdMegalurus rufescensChatham Islands1900
Chatham railGallirallus modestusChatham Islands1900
Culebra Island amazonAmazona vittata gracilipesCulebra19th/20th century
Eastern buzzardButeo japonicus oshiroiDaitō Islands1970s
Alaotra grebeTachybaptus rufolavatusLake Alaotra1980s
Delalande’s couaCoua delalandeiMadagascar1834 ?
New Caledonian lorikeetCharmosyna diademaNew Caledonia1950s ?
Dieffenbach’s railGallirallus dieffenbachiiChatham Islands1850s
Norfolk kakaNestor productusNorfolk Island, Philip Island1851 ?
Eiao monarchPomarea fluxaEiao1977
Greater amakihiHemignathus sagittirostrisBig Island (Hawaii)1901
Great elephantbirdAepyornis maximusMadagascar1650 ?
Ivory-billed woodpeckerCampephilus principalis principalisNorth America1944
Eskimo curlewNumenius borealisNorth America, South America20th century ?
Bar-winged railNesoclopeus poecilopterusViti Levu1980
Finsch’s duckChenonetta finschiNew Zealand1870 ?
OuPsittirostra psittaceaHawaii2000
Lesser koa finchRhodacanthis flavicepsBig Island (Hawaii)1891
Bachman’s warblerVermivora bachmaniiUSA (South)1980s
Tahiti sandpiperProsobonia leucopteraTahiti, Moorea19th century
Northeast chat-tanager ?Calyptophilus frugivorus frugivorusGonâve1977
Gould’s emeraldChlorostilbon elegansJamaica, Bahamas ?1860
Bewick’s wrenThryomanes bewickii brevicaudaGuadalupe19th century
Guadalupe spotted towheePipilo maculatus consobrinusGuadalupe19th century
Guadalupe caracaraCaracara lutosaGuadalupe1900
Guadalupe flickerColaptes auratus rufipileusGuadalupe, Lower California20th century
Guadalupe storm petrelOceanodroma macrodacylaGuadalupe1910s ?
Guadeloupe parakeetAmazona martinicanaMartinique1750s
Guam flycatcherMyiagra freycinetiGuam1984
Bridled white-eyeZosterops conspicillatusGuam1984
Black francolinFrancolinus francolinus ssp.Sicilia1869
Lesser akialoaHemignathus obscurusBig Island1940
Hawaiian railPorzana sandwichensisBig Island1890
Hawkins’s railDiaphorapteryx hawkinsiChatham Islands19th century
Heath henTympanuchus cupido cupidoNorth America (East)1932
Hivoa flycatcherPomarea mendozae mendozaeHiva Oa (French Polynesia)1975
Hoopoe starlingFregilupus variusRéunion1850s
Garrett’s reed warblerAcrocephalus musae garrettiHuahine (French Polynesia)1870s
HuiaHeteralocha acutirostrisNew Zealand (North Island)20th century
Eyles’s harrierCircus teauteensisNew Zealand13th century ?
Imber’s petrelPterodroma imberiChatham Islands19th century
Jamaican petrelPterodroma caribbaeaJamaica1890 ?
Javan lapwingVanellus macropterusJava1950
Virgin Islands screech-owlMegascops nudipes newtoniAmerican Virgin Islands1980s ?
Imperial woodpeckerCampephilus imperialisMexico1956
Canary Islands oystercatcherHaematopus meadewaldoiFuerteventura, Lanzarote1940s
Carolina parakeetConuropsis carolinensis carolinensisNorth America (Southeast)1918 ?
Kauai akialoaAkialoa stejnegeriKauai (Hawaii)1969
Kauai palilaLoxioides kikuchiKauai (Hawaii)19th century
Kauai nukupuuHemignathus hanapepeKauai (Hawaii)1990s
Large Kauai thrush Myadestes myadestinusKauai (Hawaii)1993 or 1996
Jamaican poorwillSiphonorhis americanaJamaica19th century ?
Eastern moaEmeus crassusNew Zealand (South Island)around 1500
Kona grosbeakChloridops konaBig Island (Hawaii)1894
Hawaii mamoDrepanis pacificaBig Island (Hawaii)1898
Kosrae starlingAplonis corvinaKosrae1850s
Kosrae crakePorzana monasaKosrae, Ponape1850s
Oahu ‘O’oMoho apicalisOahu (Hawaii)1837
Cuban macawAra tricolorCubaEnd of the 19th century.
Cuban pauraqueSiphonorhis daiquiriCuba?
Cuban ivory-billed woodpeckerCampephilus principalis bairdiiCuba1987
Letitia’s thorntailDiscosura letitiaeBolivia1852
Labrador duckCamptorhynchus labradoriusNorth America1878
Lanai akialoaHemignathus ellisianus lanaiensisLanai (Hawaii)1892
Lanai hookbillDysmorodrepanis munroiLanai (Hawaii)1918
OlomaoMyadestes lanaiensisHawaii1980s ?
Long-billed wrenDendroscansor decurvirostrisNew Zealand?
Eastern Canary Islands chiffchaffPhylloscopus canariensis exsulLanzarote20th century
Laysan honeycreeperHimatione fraithiiLaysan (Hawaii)1923
Laysan railPorzana palmeriLaysan (Hawaii)1944
Laysan millerbirdAcrocephalus familiaris familiarisLaysan (Hawaii)1915
Rodrigues railErythromachus leguatiRodrigues1750s
Chapin’s crombecSylvietta chapiniCongo20th century
Spotted green pigeonCaloenas maculataTahiti ?1820s ?
Robust white-eyeZosterops strenuaLord Howe Island1918
Lord Howe gerygoneGerygone insularisLord Howe Island1930
Lord Howe thrushTurdus poliocephalus vinitinctusLord Howe Island1920s
Lord Howe boobookNinox novaeseelandiae albariaLord Howe Island1950s
Lord Howe swamphenPorphyrio albusLord Howe Island1790 or later
Lord Howe pigeonColumba vitiensis godmanaeLord Howe Island1850s
Lord Howe parakeetCyanoramphus subflavescensLord Howe Island1860s
Macquarie parakeetCyanoramphus erythrotisMacquarie Island1890s
Madeiran wood pigeonColumba palumbus maderensisMadeira1904
Magdalena tinamouCrypturellus erythropus saltuariusColombia20th century
Mangareva kingfisherTodiramphus gambieri gambieriGambier Islands19th century ?
Manu’a shrikebill Clytorhynchus vitiensis powelliManua, Ofu-Olosega1991
Maré Island thrushTurdus poliocephalus mareensisMaré20th century
Marianne white-eyeZosterops semiflavusMarianne Island1900
Marie Galante burrowing owlAthene cunicularia guadeloupensisMarie-Galante19th century
Marinduque blackish cuckooshrikeCoracina coerulescens deschauenseeiMarinduque1970s ?
Moroccan bustardArdeotis arabs lynesiMorocco1993
Martinique wrenTroglodytes aedon martinicensisMartinique19th century
Mascarene cootFulica newtoniMauritius, Réunion1700
Réunion swamphenPorphyrio caerulescensRéunion1730
Maui akepaLoxops ochraceusMaui (Hawaii)1988 ?
Maui nukupuuHemignathus affinisMaui (Hawaii)1990s
Maupiti monarchPomarea pomareaMaupiti1850s
Mauritius owlMascarenotus sauzieriMauritius1837
Mauritius blue pigeonAlectroenas nitidissimaMauritius1830s
Mauritius sheldgooseAlopochen mauritianusMauritius1960s
Mascarene grey parakeetPsittacula bensoniMauritius, Réunion1730s
Mauritius night heronNycticorax mauritianusMauritius1700
Broad-billed parrotLophopsittacus mauritianusMauritius1680 ?
Red railAphanapteryx bonasiaMauritius1700
Mascarene tealAnas theodoriMauritius, Réunion1960s
Tahiti crakePorzana nigraTahiti1800
Molokai creeperParoreomyza flammeaMolokai (Hawaii)1963
Moorea reed warblerAcrocephalus longirostrisMoorea1981
Mount Lofty spotted quail-thrushCinclosoma punctatum anachoretaAustralia1980s
Negros fruit dovePtilinopus arcanusNegros20th century
New Caledonian buttonquailTurnix novaecaledoniaeNew Caledonia1911
New Caledonian nightjarEurostopodus exulNew Caledonia1930s ?
Sharp-tailed grouseTympanuchus phasianellus hueyiNew Mexico1954
New Zealand quailCoturnix novaezelandiaeNew Zealand1875
Hodgens’ waterhenGallinula hodgenorumNew Zealand18th century
North Island piopioTurnagra tanagraNew Zealand (North Island)1955 ?
North Island gooseCnemiornis gracilisNew Zealand (North Island)1400 ?
North Island snipeCoenocorypha barrierensisNew Zealand (North Island)1870s
North Island takahePorphyrio mantelliNew Zealand (North Island)1894
Red-moustached fruit dovePtilinopus mercierii mercieriiNuku Hiva (French Polynesia)1850s
Niceforo’s pintailAnas georgica niceforoiColombia1952
Norfolk ground dovePampusana norfolkensisNorfolk Island1800
Norfolk thrushTurdus poliocephalus poliocephalusNorfolk Island1970s
Norfolk Island long-tailed trillerLalage leucopyga leucopygaNorfolk Island1940s
Norfolk boobookNinox novaezelandeae undulataNorfolk Island1996
Nuku Hiva monarchPomarea nukuhivaeNuku Hiva1930s
Greater akialoaHemignathus ellisianus ellisianusOahu (Hawaii)1940
Oahu creeperParoreomyza maculataOahu (Hawaii)1990s
Oahu nukupuuHemignathus lucidusHawaii19th century
Oahu thrushMyadestes woahensisOahu (Hawaii)1850s
Bishop’s ‘O’oMoho bishopiMolokai (Hawaii)1904 ?
Pagan reed warblerAcrocephalus yamashinaePagan1979 to 1981
Greater koa finchRhodacanthis palmeriBig Island (Hawaii)1896
Paradise parrotPsephotus pulcherrimusAustralia1920s
Pohnpei starlingAplonis pelzelniPohnpei2000
New Caledonian railGallirallus lafresnayanusNew Caledonia1890
Oceanic eclectus parrotEclectus infectusTonga, Vanuatu18th century ?
Hawaii ‘O’oMoho nobilisBig Island (Hawaii)1934
Puerto Rican parakeetPsittacara maugeiPuerto Rico1892
Forster’s reed warblerAcrocephalus musaeRaiatea1870s
Raiatea starlingAplonis ulietensisRaiatea1774 to 1850
Raoul Island scrubfowlMegapodius sp.Raoul Island1876
Grey tealAnas gibberifrons remissaRennell (Solomon Islands)1959
Réunion owlMascarenotus gruchetiRéunion18th century ?
Réunion kestrelFalco duboisiRéunion1700
Réunion sheldgooseAlopochen kervazoiRéunion1960s
Echo parakeetPsittacula eques equesRéunion1732
Réunion night heronNycticorax duboisiRéunion17th century
Réunion railDryolimnas augustiRéunion17th century
Mascarene parrotMascarinus mascarinusRéunion1834 ?
Réunion fodyFoudia delloniRéunion17th century
Rodrigues bulbulHypsipetes cowlesiRodrigues17th or 18th century
Rodrigues owlMascarenotus murivorusRodrigues1750s
Rodrigues pigeonAlectroenas rodericanaRodrigues18th century
Rodrigues night-heronNycticorax megacephalusRodrigues1750s
Rodrigues parrotNecropsittacus rodericanusRodrigues18th century
Newton’s parakeetPsittacula exsulRodrigues 1875
Rodrigues solitairePezophaps solitariaRodrigues1730
Rodrigues starlingNecropsar rodericanusRodrigues18th century
Pink-headed duckRhodonessa caryophyllaceaIndia, Bangladesh, Myanmar1949
Grand Cayman thrushTurdus ravidusGrand Cayman1940s
Red Sea cliff swallow Petrochelidon perditaRed Sea20th century
Guadeloupe amazonAnodorhynchus purpurascensGuadeloupe19th century ?
Tahiti railGallirallus pacificusTahiti19th century
Rufous-faced owlSceloglaux albifacies rufifaciesNew Zealand (North Island)1870s ?
Black mamoDrepanis funereaMolokai (Hawaii)1907
Ryukyu kingfisherTodiramphus cinnamominus miyakoensisMiyako-jima, Ryūkyū Islands (Japan)Late 19th century
St. Kitts bullfinchLoxigilla portoricensis grandisSaint Kitts1929
Madagascan pygmy kingfisherCorythornis madagascariensis dilutusMadagascar1970s ?
Choiseul pigeonMicrogoura meekiChoiseul1904
Eastern chat-tanagerCalyptophilus frugivorusSamaná Peninsula1982
Samoan woodhenPareudiastes pacificusSavaii1907 ?
San Benedicto rock wrenSalpinctes obsoletus exsulSan Benedicto1952
San Clemente wrenThryomanes bewickii leucophrysSan Clemente Island1960s
Thick-billed ground doveGallicolumba salamonisMakira, Ramos1950s
Sulawesi dwarf kingfisherCeyx fallax sangirensisSangihe Islands20th century
Channel Island Song SparrowMelospiza melodia gramineaSanta Barbara Island1960s
Darwin’s Large ground finchGeospiza magnirostris magnirostrisFloreana, San Cristóbal1950s
Slender-billed grackleQuiscalus palustrisMexico1910
Mauke starlingAplonis mavornataMauke (Cook Islands)1850s
KioeaChaetoptila angustiplumaBig Island (Hawaii)1860s
Crested shelduckTadorna cristataAsia (Northeast)20th century
Crested moaPachyornis australisNew Zealand1396 to 1442
Kauai ‘O’oMoho braccatusKauai (Hawaii)1987
Black-browed babblerMalacocincla perspicillataBorneoRediscovered in 2020
Dusky seaside sparrowAmmodramus maritimus nigrescensFlorida1987
New Zealand bitternIxobrychus novaezelandiaeNew Zealand, Chatham Islands19th century
Black-lored waxbillEstrilda nigrilorisCongo20th century
Seychelles parakeetPsittacula wardiSeychelles1883
Ryukyu wood pigeonColumba jouyiOkinawa, Daitō Islands1930s
Siquijor hanging parrotLoriculus philippensis siquijorensisSiquijor1906
White-eyed river martinPseudochelidon sirintaraeThailand1980s
Socorro elf owlMicrathene whitneyi graysoniSocorro1970s ?
Saint Helena railAphanocrex podarcesSaint HelenaBeginning of the 16th century
Saint Helena petrelPseudobulweria rupinarumSaint HelenaBeginning of the 16th century
Olson’s petrelBulweria bifaxSaint HelenaBeginning of the 16th century
Saint Helena crakeZapornia astrictocarpusSaint HelenaBeginning of the 16th century
Lyall’s wrenTraversia lyalliStephens Island1899 ?
South Island kōkakoCallaeas cinereaNew Zealand (South Island)2007 ?
South Island piopioTurnagra capensisNew Zealand (South Island)1960s
South Island snipeCoenocorypha iredaleiNew Zealand (South Island)1964
Red-moustached fruit dove (tristrami)Ptilinopus mercierii tristramiHiva Oa (French Polynesia)1922
Rück’s blue flycatcherCyornis ruckiiMalaysia or Indochina20th century
Black-fronted parakeetCyanoramphus zealandicusTahiti1850
Tana River cisticolaCisticola restrictusKenya1970s
Tanna ground doveGallicolumba ferrugineaTanna18th century
Small buttonquailTurnix sylvatica suluensisTawi-Tawi1950s
Sulu bleeding-heartGallicolumba menageiTawi-Tawi20th century ?
Todos Santos rufous-crowned sparrowAimophila ruficeps sanctorumTodos Santos Islands1970s
Tristan moorhenGallinula nesiotisTristan da Cunha19th century
Glaucous macawAnodorhynchus glaucusArgentina (North)20th century
Turquoise-throated pufflegEriocnemis godiniEcuador, (Colombia)1850
Ua Pou monarchPomarea miraUa Pou (French Polynesia)1985
Vaurie’s nightjarCaprimulgus centralasicusChina1929 ?
Guadeloupe amazonAmazona violaceaGuadeloupe1750s
Viti Levu scrubfowlMegapodius amissusViti Levu19th century
Waitaha penguinMegadyptes waitahaNew Zealand (South Island)1500 to 1550
Wake Island railGallirallus wakensisWake Island1945
Upland moaMegalapteryx didinusNew Zealand (South Island)1500
Bush wrenXenicus longipesNew Zealand1972
White-chested white-EeyeZosterops albogularisNorfolk Island2006
Black-faced honeycreeperMelamprosops phaeosomaMaui (Hawaii)2004 ?
Laughing owlSceloglaux albifaciesStewart Island, New Zealand (South Island)1914 ?
Mangareva reed warblerAcrocephalus astrolabiiGambier Islands1850s ?
Chatham duckPachyanas chathamicaChatham Islands1350 to 1791
Forbes’s snipeCoenocorypha chathamicaChatham Islands19th century ?
Chatham kakaNestor chathamensisChatham Islands1550
Nightingale reed warblerAcrocephalus lusciniusGuam1960s
Aguiguan reed warblerAcrocephalus nijoiAguijan1995
Bermuda saw-whet owlAegolius gradyiBermuda17th century
Rodrigues blue pigeonAlectroenas payandeeiRodrigues17th century
Tasman starlingAplonis fuscaNorfolk Island, Lord Howe Island1923
Bermuda hawkBermuteo avivorusBermuda17th century ?
Bermuda flickerColaptes oceanicusBermuda17th century ?
Mauritius woodpigeonColumba thiriouxiMauritius1730s
Malagasy crowned eagleStephanoaetus maheryMadagascar16th century
New Caledonian G
gallinule
Porphyrio kukwiedeiNew Caledonia19th century
Marquesas swamphenPorphyrio paepaeTahuata, Hiva Oa1937
Moorea sandpiperProsobonia ellisiMoorea1777
Western Lewin’s railLewinia pectoralis clelandiAustralia1932
Alagoas F
foliage-gleaner
Philydor novaesiBrazil2011
Assumption white-throated railDryolimnas cuvieri abbottiAssumption (Seychelles)Between 1907 and 1937
Cryptic treehunterCichlocolaptes mazarbarnettiBrazil2007
Polynesian ground-dove (albicollis)Pampusana erythroptera albicollisTuamotu Archipelago?
Chatham Island merganserMergus milleneriChatham IslandsBetween 1400 and 1500 ?
Norfolk Island pigeonHemiphaga novaeseelandiae spadiceaNorfolk Island1901
San Cristóbal flycatcherPyrocephalus dubiusSan Cristóbal1987
St. Croix macawAra autocthonesSaint Croix (Caribbean)?
Bonin nankeen night heronNycticorax caledonicus crassirostrisOgasawara Islands1889
Iwo Jima railPorzana cinerea brevipesOgasawara Islands1911
Bonin peregrine falconFalco peregrinus furuitiiOgasawara Islands1937
Daito varied titSittiparus varius oriiDaitō Islands1938
Mukojima white-eyeApalopteron familiare familiareOgasawara Islands1930
Daito wrenTroglodytes troglodytes oriiDaitō Islands1938 ?
Ryukyu robin (subrufus)Luscinia komadori subrufusRyūkyū Islands?
Oahu akepaLoxops wolstenholmeiOahu (Hawaii)20th century ?
Louisiana parakeetConuropsis carolinensis ludovicianaNorth America1912
Astolfo’s railGallirallus astolfoiRapa Iti (French Polynesia)?
Black-naped pheasant-pigeonOtidiphaps nobilis insularisFergusson IslandRediscovered in 2022
Dusky seaside sparrowAmmospiza maritima nigrescensFlorida (USA)1990
Cebu bar-bellied cuckoo-shrikeCoracina striata cebuensisCebu (Philippines)1906
Cheke’s wood railDryolimnas chekeiMauritiusMid 17th century
Guam rufous-fronted fantailRhipidura rufifrons uraniaeGuam1980s ?
Stephens Island piopioTurnagra capensis minorNew Zealand, Stephens Island1897
Visited 10 times