Extinct species you have seen

[TeaLovingDave]

but I've yet to experience the total extinction of a species I've seen in person. I hope to never experience that, but just in case, I try not to take any wildlife for granted, no matter how common.

A few of us here in the UK - including myself - saw Partula faba at Bristol Zoo within the last decade or so, before the captive population crashed and (despite last-ditch attempts by Edinburgh Zoo, which took the final individuals, to get breeding going again) the species was lost in totality. @Maguari posted photographs a while ago, including this one:

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

With regard to the Slender-billed Curlews; I was well aware that they were the only targetable individuals, and that a couple of years earlier there had been four of them rather than two, but the feeling was that there were others out there to be found. Sadly, this has not proven to be the case. Did I expect to see the species again? No. Did I expect there to be more? Yes.

 

[Giant Eland]

There is another thread dealing with this topic; I have seen Lonesome George (probably now extinct Island population of Galapagos Tortoise) in Captivity and Slender-billed Curlew (still not listed as Extinct despite no confirmed sightings for 2 decades) wild in Morocco.

Nice, I too saw Lonesome George- 4 months before he passed away!! Which is crazy timing when you consider he was alive for over 100 years.

As for extinct in the wild I've seen Père David's deer, Scimitar-horned oryx, Northern white rhinoceros, Guam Kingfisher, and then Mhorr Gazelle, Prezwalksi's Horse, Arabian Oryx and Guam rail (when they were still considered extinct in the wild).

 

[LiSom]

Right now I can think of David deer and Atlas lion. there might be some more but don't remember right now