Bird Extinctions on the Rise
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate direction . Here ’s how it works . From the flightless fogy in Mauritius to the passenger pigeon in North America , 279 bird species and subspecies have vanished in the last 500 years , researchers estimate . The rate of defunctness worldwide peaked in the former 1900s and then started to decline , but a new subject area found that bird die - outs have been on the rise since the middle of the 20th century ....