Caracara lutosa Ridgway, 1876a:459
Guadalupe caracara, Quelili
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Polyborus lutosus Ridgway, 1876a:459
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1 December 1900 (Abbott, 1933:14; Day, 1981); 1903 (Howell and Cade, 1953; Barton et al. 2004)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Guadalupe Island, off Baja California, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ridgway, R. (1876a). Studies of the American Falconidae. Monograph of the Polybori. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 1: 451-473.
Other references:
Abbott, Clinton G. (1933). Closing History of the Guadalupe caracara. Condor 35(1): 10-14.
Barton, D.C., Lindquist, K.E., Henry, R.W. and Luna Mendoza, L.M. (2004). Landbird and Waterbird Notes from Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. Western Birds 35(4): 186-196.
BirdLife International (2000) Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge.
BirdLife International. (2012). Caracara lutosa. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 13 March 2013.
BirdLife International. 2016. Caracara lutosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22728892A94999996. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728892A94999996.en. Downloaded on 27 June 2021.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Bryant, W. E. (1887). Additions to the ornithology of Guadalupe Island [Pacific]. Bull. California Acad. Sci. 6: 269-318.
Butchart, Stuart H. M., Lowe, Stephen, Martin, Rob W., Symes, Andy, Westrip, James R. S. and Wheatley, Hannah. (2018a). Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Biological Conservation 227: 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.08.014
Butchart, Stuart H. M., Wheatley, Hannah, Lowe, Stephen, Westrip, James R. S., Symes, Andy and Martin, Rob W. (2018b). Data for: Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/vvjhpmyxb4.1
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Dove, C. J.; Banks, R. C. 1999. A taxonomic study of Crested Caracaras (Falconidae). Wilson Bulletin 111: 330-339.
Everett, William T. (2019). Rollo H. Beck's Visits to Isla Guadalupe, Mexico, with Additions and Corrections to the Island's Avifauna. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, ser. 4, 65(7): 159-180.
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Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.
Greenway Jr., James C. (1967). Extinct and vanishing birds of the world. Dover Publications, New York. [pp. 183-185]
Howell, T. R. and Cade, T. J. (1953). The birds of Guadalupe Island in 1953. Condor 56: 283-294.
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.
Ridgway, R. (1876b). Ornithology of Guadalupe Island, based on notes and collections, made by Dr. Edward Palmer. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 2(2): 183-195.
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
Stattersfield, A.J., Crosby, M.J., Long, A.J. and Wege, D.C. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
Suárez, W. & Olson, S.L. (2003). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 116, 301–307.
Swann, H. K. (1925). [An account of the nest of Caracara lutosa]. Monograph of the Birds of Prey, pt. 2, p. 73.
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Wetmore, Alexander. (1933). A Skeleton of the Guadeloupe Caracara. Condor 35(5): 206.
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