| 2009 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International - the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Extinct Family/Sub-family Haematopodidae Species name author Bannerman, 1913 Taxonomic source(s) AERC TAC (2003), Brooks (2000), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) Taxonomic note Hockey (1982) showed that this taxon was distinct from African Black Oystercatcher H. moquini.
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Summary Haematopus meadewaldoi was endemic to Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and their offshore islets in the Canary Islands, Spain2. It was last collected in 1913 and locally reported to have become extinct by the 1940s1. It is now considered extinct because extensive surveys in the mid-80s failed to find any evidence of the species's survival, despite four convincing reports (two from Tenerife and two from Senegal) between 1968 and 19812.
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Ecology: It inhabited the coastal zone where it foraged for invertebrates; its ecology was likely to have been typical of the genus.
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Threats Its decline was probably a result of overharvesting of intertidal invertebrates and disturbance by people4, although predation by rats and cats has also been implicated1.
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References 1. Collar and Stuart (1985). 2. Collar et al. (1994). 3. Hockey (1982). 4. Hockey (1987).
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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: Haematopus meadewaldoi. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 10/2/2010 |
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