The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction, the agency announced Monday, October 16th.

Declared extinct are the Little Mariana fruit bat, or the flying fox, in Guam, Ten species of birds; eight honeycreeper species in Hawaii, the Bachman's warbler, a small yellow and black songbird, in Florida and South Carolina; the Bridled white-eye, a green, yellow and white tropical lowland forest bird from Guam, two species of fish, San Marcos gambusia in Texas and Scioto madtom in Ohio, and eight species of mussels have also been delisted. 

The story here; ABC News - 21 species delisted.


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