Paroreomyza maculata Cabanis, 1851
O'ahu 'alauahio, Oahu alauahio, Oahu creeper
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Paroreomyza maculate Cabanis, 1850
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1968? 12 December, 1985?; 1985 (Martin et al., 2023); 1990 (Suckling et al. 2004)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=9]RMNH 110.005[/url] (male)
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=9]RMNH 110.006[/url] (male)
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=9]RMNH 110.007[/url] (female)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cabanis. (1851). Mus. Hein. 1 p.100.
Other references:
Baker, P. E., and Baker, H. (2000). Kakawahie (Paroreomyza flammea) and O`ahu 'Alauahio (Paroreomyza maculata). No. 503. In: A. Poole and F. Gill (eds.), The Birds of North America. The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. 24 pp.
Banko, W. E. (1979). History of endemic Hawaiian birds. Museum collections. Avian history report 2. Cooperative National Park Resources Study Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Banko, W. E. (1984). History of endemic Hawaiian birds. Part I. Population histories—species accounts forest birds: `Amakihi, Creeper, `Akepa and Po`o Uli. Avian history report 8A & 8B. Cooperative National Park Resources Study Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Berger, A. J. (1972). Hawaiian birdlife. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu.
Bremer, D. (1986). Waipio, O'ahu, Christmas bird count. Elepaio 46: 132-135.
BirdLife International. (2012). Paroreomyza maculata. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 08 September 2012.
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.
Butchart, Stuart H. M., Wheatley, Hannah, Lowe, Stephen, Westrip, James R. S., Symes, Andy and Martin, Rob W. (2018b). Data for: Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/vvjhpmyxb4.1
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James, Helen F. (1987). A late Pleistocene avifauna from the island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. L’Évolution des oiseaux d’après le témoignage des fossiles. Table Ronde internationale de CNRS, Lyon-Villeurbanne, 18-21 Sept. 1985. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de Lyon, no. 99 (ed. by C. Mourer-Chauviré), pp. 121-128.
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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 University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 409 pp.
Reynolds, M., and T. J. Snetsinger. (2001). The Hawaii rare bird search 1994–1996. Pages 133–142 in J. M. Scott, S. Conant, and C. Van Riper III, editors. Evolution, ecology, conservation, and management of Hawaiian birds: a vanishing avifauna. Studies in avian biology no. 22. Cooper Ornithological Society, Camarillo, California.
Roberts, David L., Elphick, Chris S. and Reed, J. Michael. (2009). Identifying Anomalous Reports of Putatively Extinct Species and Why It Matters. Conservation Biology 24(1): 189-196.
Roberts, D. L. and Jarić, I. (2016). Inferring extinction in North American and Hawaiian birds in the presence of sighting uncertainty. PeerJ 4: e2426.
Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). (2006). Revised recovery plan for Hawaiian forest birds. USFWS, Region 1, Portland, Oregon.
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