Petroica traversi (Buller, 1872)
Black robin, Chatham Island robin
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:220):
Miro traversi Buller, 1872 (Jun.): History of the Birds of N.Z., 1st edition (part 2): 123 – Chatham Islands.; Petroica traversi Hutton, 1872 (Jul.): Ibis 2 (3rd series): 245 – “Mangare”, Chatham Islands. Junior secondary homonym of Miro traversi Buller, 1872.; Petroica traversii Hutton; Travers & Travers 1873, Trans. Proc. N.Z. Inst. 5: 216. Unjustified emendation.; Myiomoira Traversii (Hutton); Finsch 1874, Journ. für Ornith. 22: 189. Unjustified emendation.; Myiomoira traversi (Buller); Finsch 1888, Ibis 6 (5th series): 308. In part.; Nesomiro traversi traversi (Buller); Mathews & Iredale 1913, Ibis 1 (10th series): 440.; Petroica (Miro) traversi (Buller); Checklist Committee 1953, Checklist N.Z. Birds: 61.
Conservation Status
Formerly extinct in the wild (was down to 5 individuals, including a single fertile female 'Old Blue')
Distribution
New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Buller 1872 BirdsN.Z.ed.1 p.123
Other references:
Ardern, S. L. and Lambert, D. M. (1997). Is the black robin in genetic peril? Molecular Ecology 6(1), 21-28.
Butler, David and Don Merton. (1992). The Black Robin: saving the world's most endangered bird. Auckland: Oxford University Press.
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Te Papa Press, Wellington. [p. 306]
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2022). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition). Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 1. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand. [p. 220]
Fleming, C.A. 1939. Birds of the Chatham Islands. Part 2. Emu 38: 492–509.
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. 218]
Millener, P.R. 1999. The history of the Chatham Islands’ bird fauna of the last 7000 years – a chronicle of change and extinction. Pp. 85–109. In: Olson, S.L. (Ed.). Avian paleontology at the close of the 20th Century. Proceedings of the 4th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4–7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: i–viii + 1–344.
Rothschild, Lionel Walter. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 15-16, pl. 5]
Tennyson, A.J.D. & Millener, P.R. 1994. Bird extinctions and fossil bones from Mangere Island, Chatham Islands. Notornis 41(Supplement): 165–178.
von Seth, Johanna. (2022). The use of museum specimens in conservation genomics. PhD dissertation, Stockholm University.
von Seth, Johanna et al. (2022). Genomic trajectories of a near-extinction event in the Chatham Island black robin. BMC Genomics 23: 747. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-08963-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_robin