List of birds extinct in Britian

• • Barnacle Goose - c.1000 BC (as breeding bird, later recolonised)
  • Black-tailed Godwit - 1885 (as breeding bird)
  • Black Tern - 1885 (as breeding bird)
  • Capercaillie (reintroduced)
  • Common Crane - c.1620 (recolonised)
  • Cory's Shearwater - c.1000 BC (as breeding bird, later recolonised)
  • Dalmatian Pelican - c.1000 BC
  • Eurasian Eagle Owl - c.1000 BC
  • Eskimo Curlew (never resident)
  • Eurasian Spoonbill - c.1620
  • Great Auk - 1844
  • Great Bustard - c.1650 (reintroduced 2004)
  • Kentish Plover - c.1940 (as breeding bird)
  • Little Bustard (as breeding bird)
  • Osprey (later recolonised)
  • Ruff - 1871 (as breeding bird)
  • White-tailed Eagle (reintroduced)

Source: Wikipedia

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