r/Ornithology • u/Pangolin007 Helpful Bird Nerd • 3d ago

Study New research concludes that the critically endangered Slender-billed Curlew, a shorebird last documented in 1995, is extinct.

https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13368
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u/Great_White_Samurai 3d ago

I've been birding since the early 2000s and it's crazy to see how most shorebird species populations have crashed since then.

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u/Pangolin007 Helpful Bird Nerd 3d ago

The research article, linked in the title, is open access. The Slender-billed Curlew is currently listed as critically endangered and has been documented in pictures and videos as recently as 1995. Unfortunately, those 1995 pictures were likely of the last living specimens as this research concludes the species likely went extinct around that time.