Talk:List of bird extinctions by year

Deletion
I propose to delete this list because it is redundant (see Quaternary prehistoric birds or list of extinct birds) and it is full of inaccuracies. --Melly42 (talk) 15:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The prehistoric part does seem unnecessary, but the list by year seems a nice complement to the List of extinct birds. I have deprodded, and suggest you fix the inaccuracies. Deletion is the last resort if improvement is impossible. DGG (talk) 00:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Er...you didn't deprod it. --UsaSatsui (talk) 01:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

139 new species and subspecies
This is advance warniung that in the next few days I'm going to add 139 new species and subspecies (before removing duplicates) to this list, with extinction dates as given in the book "Vanished Species" by David Day. It would have been 141, but one has turned out to be an albino form of an extant species, and another has been rediscovered after being missing for more than 100 years. All but one of the new species and subspecies has been scientifically described, all but two went extinct after 1650. Where the book date and old list date differ by less than five years, I've accepted the old list date, this time of "five years" is largely irrelevent because the dates are either closer than that or differ by 40 or so years. For every subspecies in the book I'm adding added "(subsp.)" in the list, don't delete it unless you have more recent proof that it's a full species. The scientific name of the species or subspecies is added when and only when it is necessary for disambiguation purposes, don't delete it unless you edit the linked wikipedia page to remove the disambiguation there. I've retained the common name from the book rather than change it to the Wikipedia common name. This isn't just laziness, the "Vanished Species" common name is often more describtive than the wikipedia page name, for instance "New Zealand Bush Wren" is more descriptive than "Bushwren", "St Lucia Wren (subsp.)" is more descriptive than "House wren", "Molokai 'Alauahio (subsp. flammea)" is more descriptive than "Paroreomyza". Changes from the book's common name are largely to match wikipedia's Hawaiian spelling and punctuation. This shouldn't be a great concern, because mouseover will reveal the name of the linked page. Where the type of bird is not immediately obvious, for example the Jamaican Pauraque is a nightjar, I've added "a nightjar" after the entry. Feel free to delete this or add more if desired, because almost all bird types are immediately self explanatory. Also, I've used the ornithological convention of capitalising all words of the common name rather than the wikipedia convention of only capitalising the first word; again, feel free to change this. Do not undo my addition of these new species and subspecies, and do not delete any birds off the list without first checking the latest ornithological advice.Mollwollfumble (talk) 09:29, 26 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Changes are made as explained above. Duplicates removed. Some further changes. From the previous list, entries "Eastern swan", "New Zealand puffin", "Arctic Gull", "Duncan's rockhopper penguin" and "Subantarctic penguin" are deleted because nowhere on the web is there any suggestion that such subspecies ever existed. From the previous list, entries "Lisianski duck" and "Red-bellied penguin" are deleted because the subspecies is not extinct. The entry "Mauritian sheldrake" from the previous list is renamed "Mascarene Teal" and moved from 1964 to 1690. The entry "Oahu akepa" is moved from 1990 to 1930.Mollwollfumble (talk) 09:29, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Problems with this article
What is the appropriate year to list the extinction of these birds? Sometimes the year the bird was last seen in is listed. Other times the year the IUCN declared the bird extinct is listed. I put up a citations needed template in order to better address the problem, because many of the listings are not cited. I propose that we list the year that the birds were last seen in. All feedback will be appreciated. Scorpions13256 (talk) 22:19, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

23 newly declared extinct
It appears this list sadly needs updating from this recent announcement: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Delisting 23 Species from Endangered Species Act Due to Extinction. -- Beland (talk) 02:23, 4 October 2021 (UTC)