| 2009 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International - the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Extinct Family/Sub-family Psittacidae Species name author (Gmelin, 1788) Taxonomic source(s) Brooks (2000), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) |
Summary 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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Ecology: It was presumably a forest species, as this was the native vegetation of all of the Society Islands1.
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Threats Its extinction was probably the result of the clearance of the islands' forests, hunting, or predation by introduced species1.
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References 1. Forshaw and Cooper (1989). 2. Knox and Walters (1994).
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Text account compilers Tom Brooks (Conservation 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 ulietanus. 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. To provide new information to update this factsheet or to correct any errors, please email BirdLife To contribute to discussions on the evaluation of the IUCN Red List status of Globally Threatened Birds, please visit BirdLife's Globally Threatened Bird Forums |
