Eutriorchis astur Sharpe, 1875
Madagascar serpent-eagle, Madagascar serpent eagle
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1929 (Day, 1981); 1930?; 1950?; 1964-77 (unconfirmed reports) (Collar & Stuart, 1985)
Rediscovered on 23 September 1989 (Sheldon & Duckworth, 1990) or in 1993
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution
Madagascar (eastern)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Sharpe, R. Bowdler. (1875). Contributions to the Ornithology of Madagascar, part IV. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London [1875]: 70-78.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Eutriorchis astur. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 July 2012.
Collar, Nigel J. and Stuart, S. N. (1985). Threatened Birds of Africa and Related Islands. The ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book, part 1. 3rd edition. Cambridge: ICBP.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Eames, J. C. (2010). Little-known African bird: Madagascar Serpent Eagle Eutriorchis astur. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 17(1): 99-101.
Ferguson-Lees, J. and Christie, D. A. (2001). Raptors of the world. Christopher Helm: London. [pp. 992]
Goodman, Steven M., Pidgeon, Mark, Hawkins, A. F. A. and Schulenberg, Thomas S. (1997). The birds of southeastern Madagascar. Fieldiana Zoology 87: 1-132.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292.
Langrand, O. (1990). Guide to the birds of Madagascar. Yale University Press, New Haven, USA.
Lerner, H. R. L. and Mindell, D. P. (2005). Phylogeny of eagles, Old World vultures, and other Accipitridae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 327-346.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
Sheldon, B. C. and Duckworth, J. W. (1990). Rediscovery of the Madagascar Serpent-eagle Eutriorchis astur. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 110(3): 126-130.
Sutton, Luke J. et al. (2022). Extensive protected area coverage and an updated global population estimate for the Endangered Madagascar Serpent-eagle identified from species-habitat associations using remote sensing data. bioRxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.26.489510
Thorstrom, R. and René de Roland, L. A. (2000). First nest description, breeding behaviour and distribution of the Madagascar Serpent-Eagle Eutriorchis astur. Ibis 142: 217-224.
Thorstrom, R.; Watson, R. T. (1997). Avian inventory and key species of the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar. Bird Conservation International 7: 99-115.