Accipiter butleri butleri (Gurney, 1898:27)
Car Nicobar sparrowhawk, Car Nicobar shikra
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Astur butler Gurney, 1898:27 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1901 (Richmond, 1902); 1977 (Abdulali, 1978; disputed)
This subspecies was apparently last recorded in 1901 (Godino, 2011), just three years after it's official scientific description by John Henry Gurney.
Distribution
Car Nicobar (& Katchall?), Nicobar Islands (northern), India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gurney, John Henry. (1898). "Description of a new Goshawk". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 7: 27-28.
Other references:
Abdulali, H. (1978). The birds of Great and Car Nicobars with some notes on wildlife conservation in the islands. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 744-772.
BirdLife International. (2008). Accipiter butleri. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 April 2011.
Butchart, S. H. M.; Collar, N. J.; Crosby, M. J. & Tobias, J. A. (2005). Asian enigmas: "Lost" and poorly known birds: targets for birders in Asia. Birding Asia 3: 41-49.
Butler, A. L. (1899). The birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 12: 684-698.
Godino, F. M. J. (2011). Car Nicobar Sparrowhawk . http://extinct-website.com / http://extinct-website.co.uk .Downloaded on Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
Jathar, Girish A. and Rahmani, Asad R. (2006). Endemic birds of India. Buceros 11(2/3): 1-53.
Rasmussen, Pamela. (2000). On the status of the Nicobar Sparrowhawk Accipiter butleri on Great Nicobar Island, India. Forktail 16: 185-186.
Richmond, C. W. (1902). Birds collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott and Mr. C. B. Kloss in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 25: 287-314.
Sankaran, R. (1998). An annotated list of the endemic avifauna of the Nicobar Islands. Forktail 13: 17-22.
http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/publications/basiafeats/lost2.html