List of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands
This is an incomplete list of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands.
Mammals
- Synemporion keana
Birds
- Apteribis, Maui and Molokai, 200,000 years ago
- Giant amakihi, Hawaii, 1000 BC
- Giant Hawaii goose, Hawaii, 7000 BC
- Great Maui crake, Maui, 13th century AD
- High-billed crow, Maui, circa AD 1000
- Kauaʻi finch, Kauai and Oahu, Hawaii, early 16th century
- Kaua'i mole duck, Kaua'i, 4050 BC
- Kaua'i palila, Kaua'i, circa 1750s
- Maui Nui finch, Maui and Molokai, Hawaii, early 12th century AD
- Moa-nalo, Hawaii, 11th century AD
- Nēnē-nui, Hawaii, 6000 BC
- Oʻahu grosbeak, Oahu and Maui, Hawaii, 7000 BC
- O'ahu petrel, Hawaii, 6000 BC
- Pila's palila, Kauai, Hawaii – possibly survived until early 18th century
- Primitive koa-finch, Oahu and Maui, Hawaii, before 1778
- Scissor-billed koa-finch fossils on Kauai, and Maui, Hawaii, unknown
- Stilt-owls circa AD 1000
- Stout-legged finch, Kauai, Hawaii, unknown
- Wood harrier, Maui and Molokai, unknown
Common name\scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
ʻĀmaui Myadestes woahensis | 1850s | Oahu | -- |
Bishop's ʻōʻō Moho bishopi | 1904 | Molokai and Maui | |
Black mamo Drepanis funerea | 1907 | Molokai and Maui | |
Greater ʻamakihi Viridonia sagittirostris | 1901 | Hawaii/Big Island | |
Greater koa finch Rhodacanthis palmeri | 1896 | Hawaii/Big Island | |
Hawaiʻi ʻakialoa Hemignathus obscurus | 1940 | Hawaii/Big Island | |
Hawai'i mamo Drepanis pacifica | July 1898 | Hawaiian Islands | |
Hawaiʻi ʻōʻō Moho nobilis | 1934 | Hawaii/Big Island | |
Hawaiian rail Porzana sandwichensis | 1883 | Hawaii/Big Island | |
Kāmaʻo Myadestes myadestinus | 1989 | Kauaʻi | |
Kauaʻi ʻakialoa Hemignathus ellisianus stejnegeri | 1965 | Kauaʻi | |
Kauaʻi ʻōʻō Moho braccatus | 1987 | Kauaʻi | |
Kioea Chaetoptila angustipluma | 1859 | Hawaii/Big Island | |
Lana'i 'akialoa Hemignathus ellisianus lanaiensis | 1890s | Lana'i | |
Kona grosbeak Chloridops kona | 1894 | Hawaii/Big Island | |
Lāna'i hookbill Dysmorodrepanis munroi | 1918 | Lāna'i | |
Laysan rail Porzana palmeri | 1944 | Laysan | |
Laysan honeycreeper Himatione fraithii | 1923 | Laysan | |
Laysan millerbird Acrocephalus familiaris familiaris | 1910s | Laysan | |
Lesser koa finch Rhodacanthis flaviceps | 1891 | Hawaii/Big Island | |
Maui ʻakepa Loxops coccineus ochraceus | 1988 | M'aui | |
Molokaʻi creeper Paroreomyza flammea | 1963 | Molokaʻi | |
Oʻahu ʻōʻō Moho apicalis | 1837 | O‘ahu | |
Oahu 'akialoa Hemignathus ellisianus ellisanus | 1860s-1940 | O‘ahu | |
Oʻahu ʻakepa Loxops coccineus wolstenholmei | 1900s | O'ahu | |
Oʻahu nukupuʻu Hemignathus lucidus lucidus | 1837 | O‘ahu | |
Ula-'ai-hawane Ciridops anna | 1892 | Hawaii/Big Island |
Possibly extinct birds
Common name\scientific name | Extinction date | Range | Image |
Nukupu‘u Hemignathus lucidus | 1998 | Kaua'I, Maui and O'ahu | |
Oʻahu ʻalauahio Paroreomyza maculata | 1985 | O‘ahu | |
Olomaʻo Myadestes lanaiensis | 1980 | O‘ahu | |
ʻŌʻū Psittirostra psittacea | 1987 | Hawaiian Islands | |
Poʻouli Melamprosops phaeosoma | November 26, 2004 | Maui |