Cyanoramphus ulietanus

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PSITTACIFORMES	PSITTACIDAE

Scientific Name:	Cyanoramphus ulietanus
Species Authority:	(Gmelin, 1788)
Common Name/s: English – Raiatea Parakeet

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:	Cyanoramphus ulietanus is only known from two specimens from Raiatea, French Polynesia1, collected on Cook's voyage in 1773, and now in Vienna and Tring2.
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It was presumably a forest species, as this was the native vegetation of all of the Society Islands1.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

Its extinction was probably the result of the clearance of the islands' forests, hunting, or predation by introduced species1.

Bibliography [top]

Forshaw, J. M.; Cooper, W. T. 1989. Parrots of the world. Blandford Press, London. 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.