Molothrus resinosus Steadman & Oswald, 2020
Talara cowbird
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution & Habitat
Peru (northwestern)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Steadman, David W. and Oswald, Jessica A. (2020). New species of troupial (Icterus) and cowbird (Molothrus) from ice-age Peru. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132(1): 91-103. https://doi.org/10.1676/1559-4491-132.1.91
Other references:
Faurby, Søren, Matthews, Tom J., Triantis, Kostas A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2026). Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography 2026: e08267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08267
Matthews, Thomas J., Triantis, Kostas A., Wayman, Joseph P., Martin, Thomas E., Hume, Julian P., Cardoso, Pedro, Faurby, Søren, Mendenhall, Chase D., Dufour, Paul, Rigal, François, Cooke, Rob, Whittaker, Robert J., Pigot, Alex L., Thébaud, Christophe, Jørgensen, Maria Wagner, Benavides, Eva, Soares, Filipa C., Ulrich, Werner, Kubota, Yasuhiro, Sadler, Jon P., Tobias, Joseph A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2024). The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions. Science 386(6717): 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk7898 [Supplementary Materials; Dryad dataset; Zenodo codeset]
Oswald, Jessica A. and Steadman, David W. (2015). The changing diversity and distribution of dry forest passerine birds in northwestern Peru since the last ice age. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 132(4): 836-862.
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