Nesillas aldabrana Benson & Penny, 1968
Aldabra brush warbler, Aldabra brush-warbler, Aldabra bush-warbler, Aldabra tsikirity, Aldabra warbler
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Nesillas aldabranus Benson & Penny, 1968 (orthological error)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1983 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Ile Malabar, Aldabra, Seychelles
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Benson, C. W. and Penny, M. J. (1968). A new species of warbler from the Aldabra Atoll. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 88(6): 102-108.
Other references:
Anonymous. (2006). Intensive searches throughout the Island of Malabar. World Birdwatch 28(1): 3.
BirdLife International 2008. Nesillas aldabrana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 July 2011.
BirdLife International. 2016. Nesillas aldabrana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22714587A94421643. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22714587A94421643.en. Accessed on 18 June 2022.
Brewer, David. (2018). Birds New to Science: Fifty Years of Avian Discoveries (Helm Photographic Guide Series). Christopher Helm. 416 pp.
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.
Collar, N. J.; Crosby, M. J.; Stattersfield, A. J. 1994. Birds to watch 2: the world list of threatened birds. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
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.
Fuller, Errol. (2013). Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Gerlach, Justin (ed.). (2007). Terrestrial and freshwater vertebrates of the Seychelles Islands. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers. 154 pp.
Gerlach, Justin. (2012). Red Listing reveals the true state of biodiversity: a comprehensive assessment of Seychelles biodiversity. Phelsuma 20: 9-22.
Hambler, C., Hambler, K. and Ewing, J. M. (1985). Some observations on Nesillas aldabranus, the endangered brush warbler of Aldabra Atoll, with hypotheses on its distribution. Atoll Research Bulletin.
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. [p. 216]
Prys-Jones, R. P. (1979). The Ecology and Conservation of the Aldabran Brush Warbler Nesillas aldabranus. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 286(1011): 211-224. [Abstract]
Roberts, P. (1987). Is the Aldabra brush warbler extinct? Oryx 21: 209-210.
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)]
Skerrett, A. and Disley, T. (2011). Birds of Seychelles. Christopher Helm, London, UK.
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