Year Last Seen:

1899

Comments:

This species was found in O'ahu, Hawaii but it went extinct around the end of the 19th century. Perkins found evidence that many individuals existed in the forests of Oahu in 1860, but no collectors found any trace of it in the 1890s (Munro 1960 …

Year Last Seen:

1898

Comments:

This species is known from the Hawaiian Islands, USA, but it has not been recorded since 1898 and is now Extinct. Habitat destruction was probably the major cause of its extinction.

Habitat:

It inhabited forest, especially ohia forest (Stattersfield et al. 1998), where it …

Year Last Seen:

1896

Comments:

This species was known from Hawaii's Big Island, USA, but it is now Extinct due to logging of its forest habitat. It was last recorded in 1896, and collectors visiting in 1906 failed to find it.

Habitat:

It inhabited koa forest above 1,000 m …

Year Last Seen:

1895-1900

Comments:

This species was known from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, but the last known specimen was taken between 1895 and 1900. It is thought that invasive species are responsible, both through direct predation and habitat modification.

Habitat:

It is likely to have occurred in scrubland …

Year Last Seen:

1894

Comments:

This species was known from the Hawaiian island of Lana'i, USA, but it has not been recorded since 1894 and is now Extinct. Logging of its forest habitat coupled with the impacts of introduced predators is likely to have caused the loss of this species …

Year Last Seen:

1894

Comments:

This species was endemic to New Zealand's North Island, but has been driven Extinct by human-induced habitat changes, hunting and predation by introduced mammals. There has been only one historical record of the species, in 1894.

Habitat:

It inhabited high altitude alpine grasslands.

Causes:

The …

Year Last Seen:

1894

Comments:

This species was known from Stephens Island, New Zealand, but likely became Extinct in 1895. Predation by feral cats is thought to have driven its decline.

Habitat:

The species was flightless and restricted to the rocky ground (Millener 1989).

Causes:

Construction of a lighthouse on …

Year Last Seen:

1892

Comments:

This species was found in the Hawaiian Islands, USA, but it is now Extinct as a result of forest clearance and introduced disease.

Habitat:

It inhabited all forest up types above 200 m (Gorresen et al. 2009), feeding on insects and nectar (Amante-Helweg et al …

Year Last Seen:

1892

Comments:

This newly-recognised species was known with certainty only from Marianne Island in the Seychelles, although it may also have occurred on Praslin, La Digue, Silhouette Island and Mahé. It became Extinct between 1870 and 1900.

Habitat:

Little is known, but Marianne is a small, granitic …

Year Last Seen:

1891

Comments:

This species is known from the Hawaii's Big Island, USA, but has been driven Extinct by the logging of its forest habitat. It was last recorded in 1891 and collectors visiting in 1893 failed to find it.

Habitat:

It inhabited montane koa forest.

Causes:

The …