Pomarea mira (Murphy & Mathews, 1928:4)
Ua Pou monarch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pomarea mendozæ mira Murphy & Mathews, 1928:4 (original combination); Pomarea mendozae mira (Murphy & Mathews, 1928:4)
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: March 1985 (source; Kittelberger et al., 2024 [as 1985])
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
There is an unconfirmed report of this species from 2010 (BirdLife International, 2012,2018).
Distribution
Ua Pou, Marquesas, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Murphy, Robert Cushman and Mathews, Gregory M. (1928). Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. V. American Museum Novitates 337: 1-18.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Pomarea mira. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 14 July 2013.
BirdLife International. (2018). Pomarea mira (errata version published in 2019). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T22732931A157473406. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22732931A157473406.en. Downloaded on 18 July 2020.
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., 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
Cibois, A., Thibault, J.-C. and Pasquet, E. (2004). Biogeography of Eastern Polynesian Monarchs (Pomarea): an endemic genus close to extinction. Condor 106(4): 837-851. [Abstract]
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.
Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772
Holyoak, D. T.; Thibault, J. -C. (1984). Contribution à l'étude des oiseaux de Polynésie orientale. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Serie A: Zoologie 127: 1-209.
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)]
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)]
Seitre, R. and Seitre, J. (1992). Causes of land-bird extinctions in French Polynesia. Oryx 26: 215-222.
SPREP. (1999). Proceedings of the Polynesian Avifauna Conservation Workshop held in Rarotonga, 26-30 April 1999.
Thibault, J.-C.; Meyer, J.-Y. (2001). Contemporary extinction and population declines of the monarchs (Pomarea spp.) in French Polynesia, South Pacific. Oryx 35: 73-80.
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.
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