Haematopus meadewaldoi

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	CHARADRIIFORMES	HAEMATOPODIDAE

Scientific Name:

Haematopus meadewaldoi

Species Authority:

Bannerman, 1913

Common Name/s:

English

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Canarian Black Oystercatcher, Canary Islands Oystercatcher

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

History:

2004	–	Extinct
2000	–	Extinct
1996	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Haematopus meadewaldoi was endemic to Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and their offshore islets in the Canary Islands, Spain². It was last collected in 1913 and locally reported to have become extinct by the 1940s¹. It is now considered extinct because extensive surveys in the mid-80s failed to find any evidence of the species's survival, despite four convincing reports (two from Tenerife and two from Senegal) between 1968 and 1981².
Countries:	Vagrant: Portugal

Range Description:

Haematopus meadewaldoi was endemic to Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and their offshore islets in the Canary Islands, Spain². It was last collected in 1913 and locally reported to have become extinct by the 1940s¹. It is now considered extinct because extensive surveys in the mid-80s failed to find any evidence of the species's survival, despite four convincing reports (two from Tenerife and two from Senegal) between 1968 and 1981².

Countries:

Vagrant:

Portugal

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabited the coastal zone where it foraged for invertebrates; its ecology was likely to have been typical of the genus.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Marine

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its decline was probably a result of overharvesting of intertidal invertebrates and disturbance by people⁴, although predation by rats and cats has also been implicated¹.

Major Threat(s):

Its decline was probably a result of overharvesting of intertidal invertebrates and disturbance by people⁴, although predation by rats and cats has also been implicated¹.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Haematopus meadewaldoi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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