U.S. Says Ivory-Billed Woodpecker And More Than 20 Other Species Have Gone Extinct

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An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 assorted birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct.

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In this May 10, 2005, photo, shells from tubercled-blossom pearly mussels (Epioblasma torulosa) collected from the Ohio River are held at Chase Studio in Cedarcreek, Mo. The freshwater mussel is among 23 species that U.S. wildlife officials say have gone extinct.

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Moe Flannery, senior collections manager for ornithology & mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences, holds a tray containing Bachman’s warblers in their specimen collection in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. The U.S. government is declaring the Bachman’s warbler and 22 more birds, fish and other species extinct.

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Moe Flannery, senior collections manager for ornithology & mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences, holds a tray containing Bachman’s warblers in their specimen collection in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. The U.S. government is declaring the Bachman’s warbler and 22 more birds, fish and other species extinct.

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