Given the choice, which North American bird species would you want to bring back if you could? You can only pick one. Thanks! Interested to hear what everyone’s favorite is. I predict it will be IBWO, closely followed by PAPI, maybe with CAPA or GRAU coming in third place.[poll type=multiple result…

Honestly I would love to see it back but there are lots of other warblers that look similar. I voted for IBWO but CAPA would be just as good. I think its weird that the Dusky Seaside Sparrow spp. got more than the bachmans.

You put Labrador duck in your post, buy not poll, that was the prettiest of them all, though I’m personally into rails and finding out which drawn parrots were real.

Revive and Restore has plans to bring back the passenger pigeon: https://reviverestore.org/about-the-passenger-pigeon/

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I’d pick one of the extinct Terror Birds, Titanis genus, as the North American species I’d prefer to bring back.

Oh, just North American :-( I would have loved the Haast eagle or the moa…

Oops! Sorry. I would edit it into the poll but then everyone would have to vote again…

I would vote Ivory-billed Woodpecker however I believe that there isn’t enough evidence to prove it extinct yet. Who knows if it’s still out there.

I put IBWO as a reflex*, but then thought about it and the Great Auk would be so cool to have. The poll actually let me change my vote. *I’m from the area of the US where they used to live. I can’t travel much due to health issues, so it would be a species I could actually see.

I would love to have the Carolina Parakeet back! Though I do have invasive monk, blue-crowned, and nanday parakeets in my neighborhood.

Extinct bird species you'd want to bring back

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benkendrick July 19, 2022, 9:59pm 37

Passenger pigeon I’d say. Biggest impact on the list in terms of biomass.

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