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Aplonis mavornata

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AVES PASSERIFORMES STURNIDAE

Scientific Name: Aplonis mavornata
Species Authority: Buller, 1887
Common Name/s:
English – Mysterious Starling

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Extinct ver 3.1
Year Published: 2012
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Reviewer/s: Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
Contributor/s:
Justification:
This taxon was known from Mauke, Cook Islands, but it is now Extinct due to overpredation by introduced brown rats. The type specimen was taken in 1825, and the species was not found on the next ornithological visit to Mauke in 1975.
History:
2008 – Extinct
2004 – Extinct
2000 – Extinct
1994 – Extinct
1988 – Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description: Aplonis mavornata is known only from the type specimen, collected on Mauke, Cook Islands, by Bloxam in 1825 (Olson 1986a), and not on Cook's voyages (Pratt et al. 1987). The island was not visited by ornithologists until nearly 150 years after Bloxam's collection, by which time the species had become extinct (Olson 1986a).

Countries:
Regionally extinct:
Cook Islands
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology: Nothing is known, but like other members of the genus it is likely to have inhabited the islands forests.

Systems: Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s): Its extinction was presumably as a result of predation by introduced rats.

Citation: BirdLife International 2012. Aplonis mavornata. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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