Chloridops kona Wilson, 1888
Kona grosbeak
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Psittirostra kona Wilson, 1888; Psittirostra kona kona Wilson, 1888
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1892 (Kittelberger et al., 2024); 1894 (Greenway, 1967)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Hawaii (& Lanai?), Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=4]RMNH 110.015[/url] (male)
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=4]RMNH 110.016[/url] (male)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wilson, S. B. (1888). On Chloridops a new generic form of Fringillidae from the island of Hawaii. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 218.
Other references:
Banko, P.C. and Banko, W.E. 2009. Evolution and ecology of food exploitation. In: Pratt, T.K., Atkinson, C.T., Banko, P.C., Jacobi, J.D. and Woodworth, B.L. (eds), Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Island Avifauna, pp. 159-193. Yale University Press, New Haven.
BirdLife International. (2012). Chloridops kona. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T22728825A38741019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T22728825A38741019.en. Downloaded on 19 September 2016.
BirdLife International. (2016). Chloridops kona. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22728825A94998118. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728825A94998118.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
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.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Ehrlich, Paul R., Dobkin, David S. and Wheye, Darryl. (1992). Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 259 pp.
Elphick, Chris S., Roberts, David L. and Reed, J. Michael. (2010). Estimated dates of recent extinctions for North American and Hawaiian birds. Biological Conservation 143: 617-624.
Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.
Ghiraldi, Luca and Aimassi, Giorgio. (2019). Extinct and endangered (‘E&E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139(1): 28-45.
Grant, P. R. (1995). In remembrance: Chloridops kona, died ca.1895. Linnean 11: 14-23.
Greenway James C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Special Publication no 13, 2nd edn. Dover Publications, New York.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. (2016). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
James, Helen F. (2004). The osteology and phylogeny of the Hawaiian finch radiation (Fringillidae: Drepanidini), including extinct taxa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 207-255, 17 figs.
James, H. F.; Olson, S. L. 1991. Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part 2. Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 46: 1-88.
Jouanin, Christian. (1962). Inventaire des oiseaux éteints ou en voie d’extinction conservés au Muséum de Paris. Terre et Vie 109: 275-301.
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)]
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. [pp. 254-255]
Olson, Storrs L. (1999a). Kona Grosbeak (Chloridops kona), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/424a doi:10.2173/bna.424
Olson, Storrs L. (1999b). Kona Grosbeak (Chloridops kona), Greater Koa-Finch (Rhodacanthis palmeri), Lesser Koa-Finch (Rhodacanthis flaviceps). No. 424 in: Poole, A.F. & Gill, F.B. eds. (1996). The Birds of North America. Vol. 11. Academy of Natural Sciences & American Ornithologists' Union, Philadelphia & Washington, D. C.
Olson, Storrs L. (2014). A hard nut to crack: rapid evolution in the Kona Grosbeak of Hawaii for a locally abundant food source (Drepanidini: Chloridops kona). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126(1): 1-8. [Abstract]
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.
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