Mascarinus mascarinus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PSITTACIFORMES	PSITTACIDAE

Scientific Name:

Mascarinus mascarinus

Species Authority:

(Linnaeus, 1771)

Common Name/s:

English

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Mascarene Parrot

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Published:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

Contributor/s:

Le Corre, M.

History:

2004	–	Extinct
2000	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct
1988	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Mascarinus mascarinus was described by numerous early travellers to Réunion (to France), with several captive birds shipped to France in the late 18th century¹. The last accounts of wild birds were from the 1770s, and birds were not mentioned by Bory writing in 1804, so the species may well have been extinct in the wild by then¹. The captive birds in Paris had also died by this time but a single bird survived in the King of Bavaria's menagerie until at least 1834¹. Two specimens survive today².
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Range Description:

Mascarinus mascarinus was described by numerous early travellers to Réunion (to France), with several captive birds shipped to France in the late 18th century¹. The last accounts of wild birds were from the 1770s, and birds were not mentioned by Bory writing in 1804, so the species may well have been extinct in the wild by then¹. The captive birds in Paris had also died by this time but a single bird survived in the King of Bavaria's menagerie until at least 1834¹. Two specimens survive today².

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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Nothing is known, although it is likely to have inhabited forest where it fed on fruits and nuts.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It is likely to have been hunted to extinction.

Major Threat(s):

It is likely to have been hunted to extinction.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Mascarinus mascarinus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 May 2012.
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