Phalacrocorax perspicillatus

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

AVES

Order:

PELECANIFORMES

Family:

PHALACROCORACIDAE

Scientific Name:

Phalacrocorax perspicillatus

Species Authority:

Pallas, 1811

Common Name/s:

English

—

PALLAS'S CORMORANT

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 3.1 (2001)

Year Assessed:

2004

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Evaluator/s:

Stattersfield, A. (BirdLife International Red List Authority) & Brooks, T. (Conservation International)

Justification:

Pallas's Cormorant Phalacrocorax perspicillatus was restricted to Bering Island, in the Commander Islands, Russia, and possibly the adjacent coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Steller noted that it was common in 1741, but it was a poor flier and was heavily hunted for food by the Aleuts who settled on the island in 1826. The five known specimens were all collected between 1840–1850, and in 1882, Stejneger was told by the island's residents that the last birds had disappeared about 30 years before.

History:

1988	-	Extinct (BirdLife International 2004)
1994	-	Extinct (Groombridge 1994)
2000	-	Extinct (BirdLife International 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description:

Phalacrocorax perspicillatus was restricted to Bering Island, in the Commander Islands, Russia¹, and possibly the adjacent coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula³. Steller noted that it was common in 1741¹, but it was a poor flier² and was heavily hunted for food by the Aleuts who settled on the island in 1826¹. The five known specimens were all collected between 1840-1850, and in 1882, Stejneger was told by the island's residents that the last birds had disappeared about 30 years before¹.

Countries:

Regionally extinct:

Russian Federation (Kamchatka)

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial; Marine

Threats

List of Threats:

3.1	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) - Food (past)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.

BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.

BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2004. Phalacrocorax perspicillatus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2008.
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