The Highland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus), also known as the Blue Island Moa, is a moa endemic to New Zealand. Highland moa were the last moa to become extinct, disappearing around 1500, and some isolated highland moa may have survived until the early 19th century.
A number of highland moa soft tissues and feathers have been found, including the type specimen (Number A16) found in Queenstown in Queenstown in 1876 and stored in the British Museum, and the leg-linked muscle tissue, skin and feathers stored in the Otago Museum number C.68.2
The Arabian Ostrich (Struthio camelus syriacus) is an extinct subspecies of ostrich that once lived in the Arabian Peninsula and the Near East.
The original distribution of the Arabian ostrich should have been continuous, but disappeared from the Arabian Desert due to the drying up of the Arabian Peninsula. They can be divided into two subgroups, including smaller subgroups located in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula and larger subgroups bordering the borders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and Syria. In the Sinai Peninsula, they may have been early in union with the North African ostrich of North Africa. The two are very similar in appearance, the only difference is that the Arabian ostrich is relatively small. Arabian ostriches have always been hunted objects, and with the advent of advanced weapons, the situation has worsened, eventually leading to their extinction. By the beginning of the 20th century, The Arabian ostrich was scarce. Their last bastion was northern Neferd north of the Syrian desert, between 34°-25° north latitude and 38° east longitude to the Euphrates River Valley, and was the most abundant in Al Jawf province, living with the also extinct Saudi gazelle and the rare Arabian oryx. Arabian ostriches were seen in 1928, 1941, 1948 and 1966. The southern small group disappeared between the 1900s and 1920s, possibly due to an exacerbated drought, but some egg remains remain. Around 1931, Harry St. John Fairby John Philby) found some eggshell fragments in Arabia. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA shows that the Arabian ostrich is a close relative of the North African ostrich, so the North African ostrich is being reintroduced into the region in Saudi Arabia. Somali ostriches have also been introduced to israel where the Arabian ostrich used to live.
Sideburns suck honey birds. The sideburns are larger , about 13 inches long , with a long beak that is long and slightly curved. The sideburns of the honey-sucking birds are others with a broad black band on their face and mane-like feathers on their heads and chest. The chaetoptila angustipluma is a hawaiian honey-sucking bird that became extinct around 1859. The honey-sucking birds are believed to have been decreasing before europeans discovered Hawaii, and even the native Hawaiians do not seem to know about them, and the reason for their extinction is not clear. The feathers of the honey-sucking birds are not placed on ornaments, nor are they mentioned in poetry or legend. Only four specimens are currently stored in the museum, all found in Hawaii, and their fossils have been found on other islands.
The Guadalcanal fork-tailed petreel (scientific name: Oceanodroma macrodactyla), or Guadalupe petreel, is a small petrel that may have become extinct as in 1912.
The decline of the Guadalcanal fork-tailed petrel was caused by cats that invaded in the late 19th century. By the end of the breeding season in 1906 , they were still abundant.
The last two specimens were collected in 1911, and they were finally found to be breeding in 1912. Since then, no trace of them has been found, only abandoned nests and decomposed corpses have been found. However, because they are very similar to the white-waisted fork-tailed petrel, there is still hope for their survival
The Laughing Owl, Sceloglaux albifacies (Gray, 1844), a bird of the genus Owls in the family Owlidae, is an owl endemic to New Zealand, but is extinct. When Europeans arrived in New Zealand in 1840, they were still abundant. Their specimens are deposited in the British Museum, and their scientific descriptions were published in 1845
Originating in New Zealand, the laughing owl became very rare in the mid-18th century and is the only owl species in New Zealand, with its final extinction in the 1930s. The most notable feature is that the chirping is very much like the snickering of the psychopath, and as human activities destroy the habitat of the laughing owl, they begin to change the food they eat, and they will swallow ducks, lizards, and some small mammals.
Belonging to the order Strigiformes, the family Strigidae, is 35.5–40 cm long and has a wingspan of 26.4 cm, distributed in New Zealand, and may have become extinct. It is named after the sound that resembles human laughter. After 1880, the number dropped sharply, and the last specimen was collected in 1914, and fragments of laughing owl eggs were found in 1960.
The Mauritian blue dove (Alectroenas nitidissima), also known as the Falkland blue dove, is an extinct pigeon in Mauritius. They are white, dark blue and red , and although indigenous peoples know the Mauritian blue dove , there is no scientific documentation , and much of the information is falsified. There are only three known specimens, housed in the National Museum of Natural History, the Royal Museum of Edinburgh and the Musee des Natural History of Mauritius. There are also a number of related drawings, including two depictions of a freshly shot and two paintings of a Rearing Island Blue Dove. A group of skeletons of the Mauritian blue dove was found in Marsangis in 2006 and is estimated to have been killed by a flood or a similar disaster. Since previous paleozoological studies have been limited to coastal areas, it is believed that the Mauritian blue dove only lives in dense forests.
The first skeleton of the Mauritian blue dove was discovered in Marsangis in 2006 and is estimated to have been killed by a flood or a similar disaster. Since previous paleozoological studies have been limited to coastal areas, it is believed that the Mauritian blue dove only lives in dense forests.
A more detailed description of the Mauritian blue dove was written in 1755 , which mentions that they had become scarce since the 1730s , due to the loss of forests and their hunting. Some Mauritian blue doves are still found in the 1801 literature, but only in woodlands near rivers. The last specimens were collected in Savannah in 1826 and were thought to still be found in Mar O.K. Wahia. They are estimated to have gone extinct in the 1830s.
The Mauritian red buzzard was extinct due to hunting within a century of its discovery. They should not taste very tasty, and are often hunted for curiosity and entertainment. Although they are good at escaping, if they see the red cloth, they will chase the red cloth and be trapped. Similar behavior can be seen in the Rodriguez Buzzard. When caught, red buzzards make a cry, attracting more red buzzards, because they evolved to be curious and not afraid of humans in the absence of predators. Because they live on the ground, pigs will eat their eggs, which can also lead to their extinction.
The Ogasawara Variegated Forest Pigeon (Columba versicolor), also known as the Ogasawara Forest Pigeon, is a pigeon endemic to the Medium Islands and The Parent Islands of the Ogasawara Islands of Japan.
They have only four specimens, collected between 1827 and 1889. They are on average 45 cm long. They eventually became extinct in the 19th century due to deforestation, hunting and predation by invading rats and cats.
The passenger pigeon, also known as the drifting dove, is the most famous representative of the extinct birds in modern times. The passenger pigeon is 35 to 41 cm long and weighs about 250-340 g; it resembles a spotted dove, with winged v, tail feathers fan-shaped, long, can account for 1/2 of the body length. The upper part of the back is blue-grey , the abdomen to the tail is grayish brown , the thorax is dark red with large white spots , and the neck feathers are bronze in color with purple and green flashes. The beak is black, the iris is red, the legs are dark red, and the passenger pigeons have gone from billions to complete extinction in a few decades.
Passenger pigeons are typically gregarious birds, with more than 100 million birds per flock. More than a hundred bird nests can be found on a single tree, and the living range extends to hundreds of square meters. Mainly eats berries, nuts, seeds and invertebrates. For every egg laid, the male and female incubate together; the incubation period is about 13 days. The chicks eat the milk of their parents in the first week. Originally found in the northeast of North America, it migrates southeastern to Florida, Louisiana and Mexico in the autumn and inhabits forests. It is estimated that as many as five billion passenger pigeons used to live in the United States. They are a large group of co-living groups – up to 1.6 km wide and 500 km long , that take days to travel through an area , with passenger pigeons living in a wide area of the eastern Rockies of North America in the summer and moving south to the southern United States in the winter
It is found in the Pacific islands, including China's Taiwan Province, Dongsha Islands, Paracel Islands, Zhongsha Islands, Nansha Islands, as well as the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Java and Papua New Guinea in Indonesia.
Solomon's Crown is one of the most recognizable pigeons in the world. They are about 30 cm long and the size of a chicken. It has a dark blue crown on the head , a black forehead and face , and some red feathers scattered around the rest of the head. The thorax and thorax are dark blue and the underside of the back is brown.
The wings and hips of the Solomon crowned pigeon are olive-brown and the tail is dark brown with purple tinges. The abdomen is chestnut-brown. The beak is black on the top and red on the bottom. The feet are purple-red. Whether there is a difference between males and females is unknown.
The Solomon Crown was discovered in 1904 by Albert Stewart Meek, who shot six Solomon Crown pigeons and handed them over to the Walter Rothschild Museum of Zoology in Tering. An egg from a Solomon crowned pigeon was also collected.
Rothschild sold the furs of five Solomon crown pigeons with the American Museum of Natural History in New York. No more specimens were found on the 1927 and 1929 journeys , and it is estimated that they were hunted by humans and preyed upon by cats and dogs and became extinct.