Year Last Seen:

1945

Comments:

This species was known from Wake Island in the United States Minor Outlying Islands, but went Extinct in the mid-1940s, being last recorded in 1945 and never seen by an observer who took up residence in 1946. It is thought to have been hunted to …

Year Last Seen:

1944

Comments:

This species was found in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, USA, but is now Extinct. The last population, which had been introduced to Eastern Island, was exterminated by introduced rats in 1944.

Habitat:

It inhabited grass tussocks and thickets.

Causes:

It became extinct on Laysan Island …

Year Last Seen:

1940

Comments:

This species was known from Hawaii's Big Island, USA, but it has not been reported since 1940 and is now Extinct. Deforestation and introduced diseases are likely to have been responsible.

Habitat:

It inhabited mountain koa-ohia forest (500-2,000 m).

Causes:

Its extinction …