Timeline of Extinctions - 2nd Millennium CE - 20th Century - 1910s

1910s

• 1910 - The Usambara Annone from Tanzania no longer grows in the tropical forests.

• 1911 - The last Newfoundland wolf was shot.

• 1914 - "Martha," the last known Passenger Pigeon, dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Due to massive hunting and deforestation the Passenger Pigeon went from being one of the world's most populous birds to extinction.

• 1918 - "Incas," the last Carolina Parakeet, dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo, the only parrot species in the Eastern U.S.

  - The last Tarpan, a Ukrainian wild horse, dies in captivity.