List of possibly extinct birds

List of possibly extinct birds

IUCN Red List bird species that are listed as "Possibly Extinct"

Common Name - Scientific Name - Distribution - Year of last confirmed recording

1. Pink-headed Duck - Rhodonessa caryophyllacea - Bangladesh; India; Myanmar - 1935
2. Jamaican Petrel - Pterodroma caribbaea - Bahamas; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Jamaica - 1879
3. Guadalupe Storm-petrel - Hydrobates macrodactylus - Mexico - 1912
4. Samoan Moorhen - Pareudiastes pacificus - Samoa - 1873
5. New Caledonian Buttonquail - Turnix novaecaledoniae - New Caledonia - 1911 (single record)
6. Javan Lapwing - Vanellus macropterus - Indonesia (Jawa) - 1940
7. Eskimo Curlew - Numenius borealis - Americas - 1963
8. Siau Scops-owl - Otus siaoensis - Indonesia - 1866 (single record)
9. Pernambuco Pygmy-owl - Glaucidium mooreorum - Brazil - 2001
10. New Caledonian Nightjar - Eurostopodus exul - New Caledonia - 1939 (single record)
11. Jamaican Poorwill - Siphonorhis americana - Jamaica - 1860
12. Turquoise-throated Puffleg - Eriocnemis godini - Ecuador - 1850
13. Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Campephilus principalis - United States & Cuba - 1944 & 1987
14. Imperial Woodpecker - Campephilus imperialis - Mexico - 1956
15. New Caledonian Lorikeet - Charmosyna diadema - New Caledonia
16. Sinu Parakeet - Pyrrhura subandina - Colombia - 1949
17. Glaucous Macaw - Anodorhynchus glaucus - South America - 1936 (zoo specimen)
18. South Island Kokako - Callaeas cinereus - New Zealand - 2007
19. Ua Pou Monarch - Pomarea mira - French Polynesia - 1975
20. Olomao - Myadestes lanaiensis - Hawaii - 1980
21. Oahu Alauahio - Paroreomyza maculate - Hawaii - 1985
22. Ou - Psittirostra psittacea - Hawaii - 1989
23. Kauai Nukupuu - Hemignathus Hanapepe - Hawaii - 1899
24. Maui Nukupuu - Hemignathus affinis - Hawaii - 1994
25. Maui Akepa - Loxops ochraceus - Hawaii - 1988
26. Bachman's Warbler - Vermivora bachmanii - Cuba; United States - 1988

Further reading

• 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