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Myiagra freycineti Oustalet, 1881

Guam flycatcher, Guam broadbill

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Myiagra oceanica freycineti Oustalet, 1881

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1983 (February 1984? March 1984? August 1984?; Suckling et al. 2004)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Guam

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=12]RMNH 110.008[/url] (adult, male)

 

Media

Above: bird on nest among bamboo clump, Mount Santa Rosa, Guam. Published in: Baker (1948). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

 

References

Original scientific description:

Oustalet, M. E. (1881). Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomatique de Paris, S7, 5(1), 71-80 [73].

 

Other references:

Baker, Rollin H. (1948). Report on collections of birds made by United States naval medical research unit no. 2 in the Pacific war area. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 107(15): 1-74, 6 pl.

BirdLife International. (2000). Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge.

BirdLife International. (2012). Myiagra freycineti. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 25 August 2013.

Collar NJ, Crosby MJ, and Stattersfield AJ (1994) Birds to Watch 2: the World List of Threatened Birds. BirdLife International, Cambridge.

del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020) Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA

Fuller, Errol. (2013). Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Pregill, Gregory K. and Steadman, David W. (2009). The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands. Diversity and Distributions 15(6): 983-996.

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)]

Steadman DW (1999) The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands. Micronesica 31, 319–345.

Steadman, David W. (2006). Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. xiv + 594 pp.

Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

USFWS. 2004. Removing the Mariana Mallard and the Guam broadbill from the federal list of endangered and threatened Wildlife. United State Fish and Wildlife Service, February 23, 2004, 69 FR 8116.

 

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