Heteralocha acutirostris

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PASSERIFORMES	CALLAEATIDAE

Scientific Name:

Heteralocha acutirostris

Species Authority:

(Gould, 1837)

Common Name/s:

English

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Huia

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
1994	–	Extinct
1988	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Heteralocha acutirostris was endemic to the southern portion of the North Island, New Zealand⁵. It was intensively studied by Buller in the second half of the 19th century⁴, and is known from numerous specimens², but declined to extinction around the turn of the century with the last confirmed record being in 1907³.

Range Description:

Heteralocha acutirostris was endemic to the southern portion of the North Island, New Zealand⁵. It was intensively studied by Buller in the second half of the 19th century⁴, and is known from numerous specimens², but declined to extinction around the turn of the century with the last confirmed record being in 1907³.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It appears to have required large tracts of primary, native forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The cause of its extinction is unclear but it was probably primarily due to habitat loss, especially of dead trees on which they depended for extracting beetle larvae¹, possibly along with hunting and disease³.

Major Threat(s):

The cause of its extinction is unclear but it was probably primarily due to habitat loss, especially of dead trees on which they depended for extracting beetle larvae¹, possibly along with hunting and disease³.

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