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
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