Family/Sub-family Psittacidae

Species name author (Latham, 1790)

Taxonomic source(s) Brooks (2000), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)

Summary Cyanoramphus zealandicus is known from Tahiti, French Polynesia, from three specimens (two of which are now in Liverpool and one in Tring) collected on Cook's voyage in 1773, a fourth collected by Amadis in 1842, now in Perpignan and a fifth collected by de Marolles in 1844, now in Paris².

Ecology: Like Raiatea Parakeet C. uleitanus, the species was presumably a forest bird¹.

Threats Its demise could have resulted from habitat loss, hunting or predation by introduced species¹.

References 1. Forshaw and Cooper (1989). 2. Voisin et al. (1995).

Text account compilers Tom Brooks (Conservation International), Stuart Butchart (BirdLife International), Simon Mahood (BirdLife International)

IUCN Red List evaluators Jeremy Bird (BirdLife International), Tom Brooks (Conservation International), Stuart Butchart (BirdLife International), Alison Stattersfield (BirdLife International)

Recommended citation BirdLife International (2009) Species factsheet: Cyanoramphus zealandicus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 9/2/2010

This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-ROM and BirdLife International (2008) Threatened birds of the world 2008 CD-ROM. These sources provide the information for species accounts for the birds on the IUCN Red List.

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