Aplonis pelzelni Finsch, 1876 "1875"
Pohnpei Mountain starling, Ponapé Mountain starling
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 7 March 1956 (Buden, 1996:229)
Rediscovered in 4 July 1995 (Buden, 1996:229)
Last record: 1995 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=28]RMNH 110.031[/url] (adult, male)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Finsch 1876 Proc.Zool.Soc.London["1875"] Pt4 p.644
Other references:
Anonymous. (1964). List of rare birds, including those thought to be so but of which detailed information is still lacking. IUCN Bulletin 10(Special Supplement): 4 pp.
Baker, R. H. (1951). The avifauna of Micronesia, its origin, evolution, and distribution. Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist. 3: 1-359.
BirdLife International. (2012). Aplonis pelzelni. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 August 2013.
Buden, Donald W. (1996). Rediscovery of the Pohnpei Mountain Starling (Aplonis pelzelni). Auk 113(1): 229-230.
Buden, D. W. (2000). A comparison of 1983 and 1994 bird surveys of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Wilson Bulletin 112: 403-410.
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., Stattersfield, A. J. and Brooks, T. M. (2006). Going or gone: defining ‘Possibly Extinct’ species to give a truer picture of recent extinctions. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 126A: 7-24.
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Engbring, J., Ramsey, F. L. and Wildman, V. J. (1990). Micronesian forest bird surveys, the Federated States: Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk, and Yap. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu.
IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN red list of threatened animals. World Conservation Union (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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)]
Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]
PRATT, H. D., P. L. BRUNER, AND D. G. BERRETT. (1987). A field guide to the birds of Hawaii and the tropical Pacific. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
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)]
Scott, Peter (ed.). (1965). Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds, pp. 155-237. In: The Launching of a New Ark. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961-1964. London: Collins.