Today, the U.S. federal register has proposed to officially declare 23 species extinct.
In a rare occurrence, the U.S. federal register will officially be declaring 23 species extinct. Notable among these extinctions is the “Lord God Bird”, an ivory-billed woodpecker of the southeast U.S. It was a popular hunting target in the 19th century and lost most of its habitat to logging. Eight birds found on Hawaiian islands that are also on the list succumbed to a combination of invasive species and diseases contracted from mosquitoes; a warmer world has allowed mosquitoes to reach formerly intolerable high-altitude habitats.
