Acrocephalus yamashinae (Taka-Tsukasa, 1931)
Pagan nightingale reed-warbler, Pagan reed-warbler
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Acrocephalus luscinius yamashinae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931; Conopoderas yamashinae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931; Conopoderas luscinia yamashinae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931; Acrocephalus luscinia yamashinae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1960 (1970's?); 1979 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Pagan, Marianas Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Taka-Tsukasa, Nobusuke. (1931) Dobutsu.Zasshi 43 p.485.
Takatsukasa, S. & Yamashina, Y. (1931) Zasshi, 43, 484–487
Other references:
Baker, Rollin H. (1951). The avifauna of Micronesia: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution (p. 257; pp. 1-359). In, E. Raymond Hall, A. Byron Leonard, Edward H. Taylor and Robert W. Wilson (eds.). (1951). University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 3. Kansas, USA: University of Kansas Publications.
BirdLife International. (2016). Acrocephalus yamashinae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T103780103A104319399. Downloaded on 16 December 2016.
Cibois, A., J.S. Beadel, G.R. Graves, , E. Pasquet, B. Slikas, S.A. Sonsthagen, J.-C. Thibault, and R.C. Fleischer. (2011). Charting the course of reed-warblers across the Pacific islands. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1963-1975.
Courtney-Haines, Lawrence M. (1991). A Cabinet of Reed-Warblers: A Monograph Dealing with the Acrocephaline Warblers of the World, and Embracing All Known Species ans Sub-species. Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons. xvii + 95 pp.
del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020). Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
Kearns, Anna M. et al. (2022). Conservation genomics and systematics of a near-extinct island radiation. Molecular Ecology 31(7): 1995-2012. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16382
Kittelberger, Kyle D., Tanner, Colby J., Buxton, Amy N., Prewett, Amira and Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı. (2024). Correlates of avian extinction timing around the world since 1500 CE. Avian Research 15: 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100213 [Supplementary data (List of 216 taxa)]
Marshall, Ann P. et al. (2021). Status of endemic reed-warblers of the Mariana Islands, with emphasis on conservation strategies for the endangered Nightingale Reed-warbler. Bird Conservation International. doi: 10.1017/S0959270921000034
Reichel, James D., J. Wiles, Gary, and Glass, Phil. (1992). Island extinctions: The case of the endangered Nightingale Reed-warbler. The Wilson Bulletin 104(1): 44-54.
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)]