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| Description: (a) The ivory-billed woodpecker, the third-largest woodpecker in the world, was long thought to be extinct in the southeastern U.S. because of habitat destruction, but a possible sighting occurred in 2004. This nestling was photographed in Louisiana in 1938. (b) The great auk, once a common seabird off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, was hunted to extinction not only for its meat, but also for its feathers for the European fashion industry. The last breeding pair was killed in Iceland in 1844. (c) Many Hawaiian honeycreepers were exterminated by avian malaria from introduced mosquito species. This ‘i’iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) is one of the few remaining honeycreeper species.
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