Aplonis corvina

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PASSERIFORMES	STURNIDAE

Scientific Name:

Aplonis corvina

Species Authority:

(Kittlitz, 1833)

Common Name/s:

English

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Kosrae Starling

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Published:

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:	Aplonis corvina was endemic to Kosrae, Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia¹. It is only known from two specimens, both collected by Kittlitz in 1828², and both now in St Petersburg³. It was extinct by the time that Finsch visited the island in 1880¹.
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabited the mountain forests.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its extinction was presumably a result of depredation by introduced rats, which were accidentally introduced by whalers and are abundant on the island.

Major Threat(s):

Its extinction was presumably a result of depredation by introduced rats, which were accidentally introduced by whalers and are abundant on the island.

Bibliography [top]

	Greenway, J. C. 1967. Extinct and vanishing birds of the world. Dover Publications, New York. Knox, A. G.; Walters, M. P. 1994. Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of the Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club, Tring, U.K. Pratt, H. D.; Bruner, P. L.; Berrett, D. G. 1987. A field guide to the birds of Hawaii and the tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Greenway, J. C. 1967. Extinct and vanishing birds of the world. Dover Publications, New York.

Knox, A. G.; Walters, M. P. 1994. Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of the Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club, Tring, U.K.

Pratt, H. D.; Bruner, P. L.; Berrett, D. G. 1987. A field guide to the birds of Hawaii and the tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Aplonis corvina. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2012.
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