Going, Going, Gone A startling number of birds have become extinct over the last 400 to 500 m Perhaps the most famous is the dodo. The dodo was a flightless bird that s found on islands in the Indian Ocean. The moa lived in Ncw Zealand and ked like an ostrich Gradually, it grew too heavy to fly. Thus, ir became easy y for hunters. The last specimens had been killed by the eighteenth century. passenger pigeon became extinct as late as 1914 when the last surviving an Ohio zoo.