Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Passeriformes | Fringillidae |
Scientific Name: | Paroreomyza flammea (Wilson, 1889) | |||
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Taxonomic Source(s): | Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K. |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Extinct ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Date Assessed: | 2016-10-01 |
Assessor(s): | BirdLife International |
Reviewer(s): | Butchart, S. & Symes, A. |
Facilitator/Compiler(s): | Brooks, T., Harding, M., Khwaja, N., Mahood, S. |
Justification: This species is known from the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, USA, but is now Extinct, probably as a result of habitat destruction and introduced diseases. The last records date from 1961-1963, and a survey in 1979 failed to find the species. |
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Range Description: | Paroreomyza flammea was endemic to Moloka'i, Hawaii, USA (Stattersfield et al. 1998). The last record was in the Kamako'u Preserve in 1961-1963 (Collar et al. 1994). | ||||||||||||||
Countries occurrence: | Regionally extinct: United States (Hawaiian Is.) | ||||||||||||||
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Population: | It was common in 1907, but declined rapidly afterwards and was rare by the 1930s (Gorresen et al. 2009), finally disappearing between 1961 and 1963 (Collar et al. 1994). Surveys from 1979 onwards have failed to locate the species (Gorresen et al. 2009). | ||||||||||||
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Habitat and Ecology: | This species was an insectivore, foraging in wet `ohi`a forests above 500 m (USFWS 2003). |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat: | Unknown |
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Generation Length (years): | 9.7 |
Movement patterns: | Not a Migrant |
Major Threat(s): | Its extinction was presumably due to habitat destruction and disease (Collar et al. 1994). It is not thought to have been collected for ornament (Amante-Helweg and Conant 2009). |
Amended reason: | Edited Red List Rationale text. |
Citation: | BirdLife International. 2017. Paroreomyza flammea (amended version of assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22720823A119118273. . Downloaded on 21 April 2018. |
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