| 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 (Milne-Edwards, 1867) Taxonomic source(s) Brooks (2000) Taxonomic note A red-and-green parrot known from vague historical accounts from Réunion was described as N. borbonicus (Rothschild 1907), but there is no evidence that this form differed from N. rodericanus (Forshaw and Cooper 1989). If the parrot existed, it must have become extinct by about 1680 (Cheke 1987). Another taxon, N. francicus, is certainly invalid (Rothschild 1907), being based on reports from Réunion (Cheke 1987).
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Summary Necropsittacus rodericanus is known from Rodrigues, Mauritius, from several early travellers' reports1 and a number of subfossil bones2. Pingré wrote the last report in 1763 based on observations from 17611, and the species was presumably extinct soon after.
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Ecology: Nothing is known, though it is likely to have been a forest species.
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Threats Hunting is likely to have caused its extinction.
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References 1. Cheke (1987). 2. Cowles (1987). 3. Forshaw and Cooper (1989). 4. Rothschild (1907).
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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: Necropsittacus rodericanus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 9/2/2010 |
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