List of Bird Extinctions by Year
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17th century

1681
  • Dodo
    Dodo
    The dodo was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter tall, weighing about , living on fruit, and nesting on the ground....

  • Eastern Swan

1690
  • Reunion Sheldrake

18th century

1700
  • Guadeloupe Amazon
    Guadeloupe Amazon
    The Guadeloupe Parrot was a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It was endemic to Guadeloupe. It was hunted, and by 1779 was already rare. Today it is extinct....


1722
  • Martinique Amazon
    Martinique Amazon
    The Martinique Amazon, Amazona martinicana, was a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It was endemic to Martinique. It became extinct due to habitat loss as Martinique was cleared for agriculture. It has not been recorded since 1722...


1760
  • Lesser Antillean Macaw
    Lesser Antillean Macaw
    The Lesser Antillean Macaw also known as Guadeloupe Macaw is a hypothetical extinct species of macaw species from the Antilles island of Guadeloupe. It was first described in detail by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre in 1654 and 1657 and later in 1742 by Jean Baptiste Labat...

  • Society Parakeet
    Society Parakeet
    The Society Parakeet is an extinct parakeet of the genus Cyanoramphus.-Description:It reached a length of 25 cm. Its head was chocolate brown. The bill showed a pale bluish grey hue and had a black tip. The back and the wings were coloured brown. The lower back and the tail exhibited a...


1770
  • Réunion Parakeet
    Réunion Parakeet
    The Réunion Parakeet was a little-known and extinct subspecies, sometimes considered a full species, of parakeet which used to inhabit Réunion Island in the western Indian Ocean. It is only known from descriptions, as well as illustrations of which it is unknown whether they were drawn from live...


1793
  • Oceanic Eclectus Parrot
    Oceanic Eclectus Parrot
    The Oceanic Eclectus Parrot is an extinct parrot species which occurred on Tonga, Vanuatu and possibly on Fiji. The only living relative in the genus is the Eclectus Parrot which has proportionally larger wings than the Oceanic Eclectus Parrot...

  • New Zealand Puffin

19th century

1800
  • Amsterdam Island Duck
    Amsterdam Island Duck
    The Amsterdam Duck or Amsterdam Island Duck was a species of waterfowl in the Anatidae family. It was endemic to Île Amsterdam , French Southern Territories. This flightless species is only known from bones and was presumably driven to extinction by whalers visiting the island..During his visit to...

  • Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw
    Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw
    The Dominican Green-and-Yellow Macaw or Atwood's Macaw, also called the Dominican Macaw, is extinct, and only known through the writings of zoologist Thomas Atwood in 1791...

  • Jamaican Green-and-yellow Macaw
    Jamaican Green-and-yellow Macaw
    The Jamaican Green-and-yellow Macaw may have been a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family that lived in Jamaica, but its existence is hypothetical.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....

  • Jamaican Red Macaw
    Jamaican Red Macaw
    The Jamaican Red Macaw may have been a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family that lived on Jamaica, but its existence is hypothetical.It is based on the following description of a specimen by Gosse:-References:...


1822
  • King Island Emu
    King Island Emu
    The King Island Emu or Black Emu is an extinct sub-species of emu which occurred on King Island between mainland Australia and Tasmania. It is known from 19th century descriptions of live birds, as well as subfossil bones and one museum specimen...


1827
  • Kangaroo Island Emu
    Kangaroo Island Emu
    Kangaroo Island Emu or Dwarf Emu is an extinct member of the bird family Casuariidae. It was restricted to Kangaroo Island, South Australia, which was known as Ile Decrés by the members of the Baudin expedition. It differed from the mainland Emu mainly in its smaller size...


1830
  • Bonin Grosbeak
    Bonin Grosbeak
    The Bonin Grosbeak or Bonin Islands Grosbeak is an extinct finch, the only species of the genus Chaunoproctus. It is one of the diverse bird taxa that are vernacularly called "grosbeaks", but it is not closely related to the grosbeaks sensu stricto. It was a retiring, although not shy bird, and...

  • Arctic Gull

1837
  • Oahu Nukupu'u

1845
  • Lisianski Duck
  • Red-bellied Penguin
  • Duncan's Rockhopper Penguin

1850
  • Tasmanian Emu
    Tasmanian Emu
    The Tasmanian Emu is an extinct subspecies of the Emu. It was found on Tasmania where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene...

  • Black-fronted Parakeet
    Black-fronted Parakeet
    The extinct Black-fronted Parakeet or Tahiti Parakeet was endemic to the Pacific island of Tahiti. Its native name was simply ’ā’ā according to Latham though White gives "aa-maha"....


1859
  • Norfolk Island Kākā
    Norfolk Island Kaka
    | name = Norfolk Kaka| image = Nestor productus.jpg| image_width = 250px| image_caption = Specimen in La Specola| status = EX | status_system = IUCN3.1| extinct = 1851?| regnum = Animalia| phylum = Chordata| classis = Aves| ordo = Psittaciformes...

  • Kioea
    Kioea
    The Kioea was a Hawaiian bird that became extinct around 1859. The kioea was in decline even before the discovery of Hawaii by Europeans. Even native Hawaiians are seemingly unfamiliar with this bird. The feathers of the kioea were not used in Hawaiian featherwork, nor is it mentioned in any...

     Honeyeater

1875
  • Newton's Parakeet
    Newton's Parakeet
    The Newton's Parakeet was a parrot that was endemic to the forests of the island of Rodrigues, a dependency of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean...


1883
  • Seychelles Parakeet
    Seychelles Parakeet
    The Seychelles Parakeet occurred in the Indian ocean islands of the Seychelles group. It resembled the Alexandrine Parakeet but was smaller and lacked the pink colour in its collar...

  • Coues' Gadwall
    Coues' Gadwall
    Coues' Gadwall or Washington Island Gadwall is an extinct dabbling duck which is only known by two immature specimens from the Pacific island of Teraina Line Islands, Kiribati...


1891
  • Lesser Koa-Fich

1892
  • Maui Nui 'Akialoa
    Maui Nui 'Akialoa
    The Maui Nui 'Akialoa or Lana'i 'Akialoa is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It was endemic to the island of Lanai, Hawaii in modern times, but seems to have occurred on all major islands of former Maui Nui before human settlement. The Maui Nui Akialoa was one of the birds that made...


1894
  • Kona Grosbeak
    Kona Grosbeak
    The Kona Grosbeak is an extinct species of finch in the Hawaiian honeycreeper subfamily, Drepanidinae. The Kona Grosbeak was endemic to naio forests on ʻaʻā lava flows at elevations of near the Kona District on the island of Hawaii...


1885
  • Cuban Red Macaw
    Cuban Red Macaw
    The Cuban Red Macaw, Ara tricolor, is an extinct species of parrot that was native to Cuba and the Isla de la Juventud, an island off the coast of west Cuba. At about long it was one of the smaller members of the Ara genus of macaws. It was the last species of macaw native to the Caribbean...


1896
  • Greater Koa-Finch

1898
  • Hawaii Mamo
  • Jamaican Pauraque
    Jamaican Pauraque
    The Jamaican Poorwill, Jamaican Pauraque, or Jamaican Least Pauraqué is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland...


20th century

1901
  • Greater Amakihi

1907
  • Huia
    Huia
    The Huia was the largest species of New Zealand wattlebird and was endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. Its extinction in the early 20th century had two primary causes. The first was rampant overhunting to procure Huia skins for mounted specimens, which were in worldwide demand by...

  • Black Mamo
    Black Mamo
    The Black Mamo is an extinct bird species once endemic to the island of Molokai, although there is fossil evidence of it having lived on Maui....


1908
  • Alejandro Selkirk Firecrown Typical Hummingbird

1910
  • Slender-billed Grackle
    Slender-billed Grackle
    The Slender-billed Grackle was a species of bird in the icterid family Icteridae. The species was closely related to the western clade of the Great-tailed Grackle, from which it diverged around 1.2 million years ago....


1914
  • Passenger Pigeon
    Passenger Pigeon
    The Passenger Pigeon or Wild Pigeon was a bird, now extinct, that existed in North America and lived in enormous migratory flocks until the early 20th century...


1918
  • Lanai Hookbill

1920
  • Paradise Parrot
    Paradise Parrot
    The Paradise Parrot was a colourful medium-sized parrot native to the grassy woodlands of the Queensland - New South Wales border area of northeastern Australia. Once moderately common within its fairly restricted range, the last live bird was seen in 1927...


1923
  • Laysan Apapane

1929
  • Bering Cackling Goose

1932
  • Glaucous Macaw
    Glaucous Macaw
    The Glaucous Macaw, Anodorhynchus glaucus, is a large South American parrot. This macaw is critically endangered or possibly extinct. It is closely related to the Lear's Macaw A. leari and the Hyacinth Macaw A. hyacinthinus. In Guaraní, it was called guaa-obi after its...


1937
  • Lanai Alauahio
    Lanai Alauahio
    The Lana'i 'Alauahio was a small yellowish finch that was four and a quarter inches long. It was found on much of Lanai’s land. It apparently was common until the early 1900s when there appeared to have been a steep decline in birds on the island. It was similar to the Maui Nui Alauahio and say...

  • [[ʻUla-ʻai-Hawane]]

1939
  • Carolina Parakeet
    Carolina Parakeet
    The Carolina Parakeet was the only parrot species native to the eastern United States. It was found from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf of Mexico, and lived in old forests along rivers. It was the only species at the time classified in the genus Conuropsis...

  • Subantarctic Penguin

1940
  • Hawaiʻi ʻAkialoa
  • Oahu 'Akialoa
    Oahu 'Akialoa
    The Oahu Akialoa was a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. The Oahu Akialoa was a species of Akialoa, or long-billed insectivorous bird that was that was found in the high elevation forest. It was a dull colored species, dull green on the belly, bright green on tail on rump and tail, dark...


1950
  • Niceforo's Pintail
    Niceforo's Pintail
    Niceforo's Pintail , is an extinct subspecies of the Yellow-billed Pintail , a duck in the dabbling duck subfamily Anatinae...

  • Grand Caymen Oriole
  • New Caledonian White-Throated Eared-Nightjar

1959
  • Renell Island Teal

1963
  • Kakawahie

1964
  • Creasted Sheldrake
  • Mauritian Sheldrake

1966
  • Arabian Ostrich
    Arabian Ostrich
    The Middle Eastern Ostrich or Arabian Ostrich is an extinct subspecies of the ostrich which once lived on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Near East. Its range seems to have been continuous in prehistoric times, but with the drying-up of the Arabian Peninsula, it disappeared from the inhospitable...


1969
  • Kauai Akialoa


1981
  • Bachman's Warbler
    Bachman's Warbler
    The Bachman's Warbler, Vermivora bachmanii, is a small passerine bird that inhabits the swamps and lowland forests of the southeast United States. This warbler is a migrant, wintering in Cuba. The Bachman’s Warbler is small for a warbler and is unique for its thin and decurved bill. It has strong...

  • Mariana Mallard
    Mariana Mallard
    The Mariana Mallard or Oustalet's Duck is an extinct type of duck of the genus Anas that was endemic to the Mariana Islands...


1988
  • Maui Akepa

1990
  • Borreo's Cinnamon Teal
  • Hooded Seedeater
    Hooded Seedeater
    The Hooded Seedeater is a mysterious bird from Brazil from the genus of typical seedeaters . It is only known by the male holotype from 1823....

  • 'O'u
  • Oahu Alauahio
  • Oahu Akepa
  • Imperial Woodpecker
    Imperial Woodpecker
    The Imperial Woodpecker is – or was – a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. If it is not extinct, it is the world's largest woodpecker species at 56-60 cm long...


1995
  • Maui Nukupu'u

1998
  • Kauai Nukupu'u
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