| 2009 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International - the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Extinct Family/Sub-family Turdidae Species name author (Kittlitz, 1831) Taxonomic source(s) Brooks (2000), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) |
Summary Zoothera terrestris is only known from four specimens (now in Frankfurt, St Petersburg, Leiden and Vienna) collected in 1828 on Ogasawara-shoto (Peel Island, Bonin), Japan1. It could not be found when the island was next visited by an ornithologist, in 1889, nor subsequently1. Nothing is known of the species's ecology or extinction1.
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Ecology: Presumably it was confined to forest floor.
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Threats Whalers started to use the island in the 1830s and it was probably driven to extinction by introduced rats and cats shortly after1.
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References 1. Greenway (1967).
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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: Zoothera terrestris. 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 |
