Aimophila ruficeps sanctorum van Rossem, 1947:55
Todos Santos rufous-crowned sparrow
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1927 (van Rossem, 1947); 1970s (Collins 1999)
IUCN RedList status: "likely to be extinct"
Predation by feral cats is believed to have caused the extinction of this endemic insular subspecies (Donlan et. al. 2000).
Distribution
Isla Todos Santos (=Todos Santos Islands), Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
van Rossem, A. J. (1947). Comment on certain birds of Baja California, including descriptions of three new races. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 60: 55.
Other references:
Donlan, C. J.; Tershy, B. R.; Keitt, B. S.; Wood, B.; Sanchez, J. A.; Weinstein, A.; Croll, D. A. and Alguilar, J. L. (2000). [url=http://www.advancedconservation.org/library/donlan_etal_2000.pdf]Island conservation action in northwest Mexico, pp. 330-338[/url]. In, Browne, D. H.; Chaney, H. and Mitchell, K. (eds.). Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
Samaniego-Herrera, A.; Peralta-García, A. and Aguirre-Muñoz, A. (eds.). 2007. Vertebrados de las islas del Pacífi co de Baja California. Guía de campo. Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C. Ensenada, 178 pp.
Wilbur, S. R. (1987). Birds of Baja California. Los Angeles and London: University of California Press.