| 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 (Owen, 1866) Taxonomic source(s) Brooks (2000) |
Summary Lophopsittacus mauritianus is known from numerous bones and travellers' reports and sketches from Mauritius2. Hoffman, writing in 1680 based on observations in 1673-1675, gave the last definite reports of the species1.
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Ecology: There is very little known, although it is likely to have been a forest species and its heavy bill indicates it specialised on large nuts.
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Threats Birds were large and were poor fliers (but not flightless3) and consequently heavily hunted1 and this is likely to have caused its extinction.
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References 1. Cheke (1987). 2. Cowles (1987). 3. Holyoak (1971).
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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: Lophopsittacus mauritianus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 10/2/2010 |
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 |
