Black-fronted Parakeet (Cyanoramphus zealandicus)

Posted on 31 December, 1844 in Extinct • Tagged with French Polynesia (Tahiti), family-PSITTACIDAE, extinct-1840s

Year Last Seen:

1844

Comments:

This species was known from Tahiti, French Polynesia, but it has not been recorded since 1844 and is now Extinct. Possible causes include deforestation, hunting and predation by introduced species.

Habitat:

Like Raiatea Parakeet C. uleitanus, the species was presumably a forest bird (Forshaw and …


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Mascarene Pigeon (Alectroenas nitidissimus)

Posted on 31 December, 1840 in Extinct • Tagged with Mauritius (Mauritius), family-COLUMBIDAE, extinct-1840s

Year Last Seen:

1840

Comments:

This species was found on Mauritius, but it has been hunted to extinction. The last reports date from 1832 and it is thought to have been Extinct a few years later.

Habitat:

Very little is known, although it evidently inhabited the island's forests, although there …


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Dieffenbach's Rail (Hypotaenidia dieffenbachii)

Posted on 31 December, 1840 in Extinct • Tagged with New Zealand (Chatham Islands), family-RALLIDAE, extinct-1840s

Year Last Seen:

1840

Comments:

This species was found on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, but was driven to extinction by the depredations of introduced species. It has not been seen since 1840.

Habitat:

Nothing is known, though it may have inhabited scrub or forest.

Causes:

Its extinction was presumably …


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Spectacled Cormorant (Urile perspicillatus)

Posted on 31 December, 1840 in Extinct • Tagged with Russia (Komandorski Islands), family-PHALACROCORACIDAE, extinct-1840s

Year Last Seen:

1840

Comments:

This species was known from Russia's Komandorski Islands, but is now Extinct: the last records date from the 1840s and the species is thought to have been lost by the early 1850s. Hunting was the primary cause of its extinction.

Habitat:

It inhabited rocky coasts …


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