| 2009 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International - the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Extinct Family/Sub-family Turnagridae Species name author Dickinson, 2003 Taxonomic source(s) Brooks (2000) Taxonomic note This taxon was traditionally considered conspecific with the South Island form, T. capensis (Greenway 1967), but recent work has shown it to be distinct (Holdaway 1999).
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Summary Turnagra tanagra was endemic to the North Island, New Zealand1. Buller described them as common in the 1870s, but there were few specimens ever collected (specimens are only known to exist in Chicago, Tring, Philadelphia and Wellington), the last being from 19001. Occasional sight records persisted until 19553.
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Ecology: Very little is known, although it is likely to have required large tracts of primary native forest.
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Threats Presumably both habitat destruction and direct predation by people, cats and rats caused the species's extinction1.
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References 1. Greenway (1967). 2. Holdaway (1999). 3. 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: Turnagra tanagra. 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 |
