When the Guam flying fox population was enormous, humans hunted them for food. Overharvesting bats caused extinction. Brown tree snakes become bat predators. Military and agricultural activity harmed habitat.

Guam Flying Fox

The ivory-billed woodpecker was once the third-largest woodpecker in the world. Males have a red crest on a black-and-white bird. They were named for their unusually huge white bill.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Breeding in the Southeast and Midwest, the Bachman's Warbler winters in Cuba. Draining their wetlands and cutting down their trees destroyed their environment. 1932's winter hurricane may have affected Cuba.

Bachman’s Warbler

4-inch olive bridled white-eye with white eyes. They farmed Guam's wet lowlands. Brown tree snake killed bridled white-eye. After WWII, Guam's tree snake population expanded. 

Bridled White-Eye 

The red magnificent poison frog existed in Panama's wet lowlands. Poison dart frogs were brightly coloured and toxic. Deforestation, urbanisation, railroad lines, and logging killed them.

Splendid poison Frog

Orange-red-striped frogs possessed head and body poison glands. Habitat loss and introduced trout caused their decrease. Amphibian chytridiomycosis caused their demise. Since the mid-1990s, no sightings.

Chiriqui Harlequin Frog 

Chad, Sudan, and Uganda have northern white rhinos. Chinese Ayurvedic therapies used stolen horns. Despite two captive females, this species was proclaimed extinct in 2018.

White Rhinoceros

Species of animals found in open fields

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Chad, Sudan, and Uganda have northern white rhinos. Chinese Ayurvedic therapies used stolen horns. Despite two captive females, this species was proclaimed extinct in 2018.

White Rinoceros