Extinct animals which were photographed alive

[Melanie]

Bubal Hartebeest

Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus

A female that lived in London Zoo from 4 October 1883 until 27 April 1897. Photographed by Lewis Medland in 1895. See also the book London Zoo from old photographs 1852-1914 by John Edwards.

[Melanie]

Guam Flycatcher or Guam Monarch

Myiagra freycineti

(c) courtesy of Anne F. Maben

One of the last known photographs of the Guam Flycatcher taken by Anne F. Maben in 1981



Taken on Mt. Santa Rosa, Guam, 1948



Juvenile, taken by J. Mark Jenkins in 1977. From the Monograph The Native Forest Birds of Guam published in 1983.

[Melanie]

Tarpan

Equus ferus ferus

Only known photo of a living Tarpan taken in 1884 in the Moscow Zoo

[Melanie]

Javan Tiger

Panthera tigris sondaica

Javan Tiger in the London Zoo, taken in 1942

[Melanie]

Caspian Tiger or Turan Tiger

Panthera tigris virgita

[Deleted]

Hello!

I would like to know, which of these photographs we could use, which are free to be used?

[Melanie]

Nov 12, 2013 9:25:07 GMT @noisi said:

Hello!

I would like to know, which of these photographs we could use, which are free to be used?

Photos are out of copyright when the photographer is 70 years dead or longer. You can also use the Wikipedia photographs when you release them under the Commons Sharealike licence. All other photos are copyrighted.

[Melanie]

Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Campephilus principalis bairdii

(c) courtesy of John Dennis, taken in 1948



(c) courtesy of George R. Lamb, taken in 1956







(c) courtesy of Harold Bucher

[Melanie]

Bachman's Warbler

Vermivora bachmanii

The only color photograph of the Bachman's Warbler, taken by Jerry A. Payne or J. H. Dick (according to Fuller it is not certain which of the two) in 1958

[Melanie]

Syrian Wildass or Syrian Onager

Equus hemionus hemippus

There are several ancient photographs taken in the zoos of London and Vienna. Here are some of them

[Melanie]

Pink-headed Duck

Rhodonessa caryophyllacea

Photographed by David Seth-Smith in the Foxwarren Park, Surrey in 1926

[Melanie]

Imperial Woodpecker

Campephilus imperialis

Still photographs from video footage taken by William L. Rhein in 1956

[Melanie]

Northern Gastric Brooding Frog

Rheobatrachus vitellinus

[Melanie]

Southern Gastric Brooding Frog

Rheobatrachus silus

[Melanie]

Alaotra Grebe

Tachybaptus rufolavatus

Only known photograph of the Alaotra Grebe taken in September 1985 by Paul Thompson.

[Melanie]

Eskimo Curlew

Numenius borealis

All photographs taken by Don Bleitz. (c) 1962 courtesy of Don Bleitz

[amongthylacines]

I'm not one who cries easily but these pictures make me so *uckin* sad.
And it seems no ones cares
Everybody is screaming about climate change but hardly anyone seems to give a nuts about the extinction of these wonderful creatures
And every one of them could have been saved

[Melanie]

Nov 18, 2013 18:06:14 GMT amongthylacines said:

I'm not one who cries easily but these pictures make me so *uckin* sad.

I can understand you. These pictures are looking so *uckin* normal like animals you usually see in television or in the zoo. But when you thinking about, you will scare because these animals don't exist anymore. But the saddest thing is that our children and grand-children will say the same thing about animals which are still existing but will be wiped out in a few years or decades. Can you imagine a world without living tigers or rhinos? I fear that our grand-children have to learn that this world will come in a not so far future.

[Deleted]

It is perhaps the profanity of a simple photograph, taken at a time, when a creature, now lost, may have been a common sight, that is causing these sad feelings.

[Melanie]

Heath Hen

Tympanuchus cupido cupido