Rhodacanthis flaviceps Rothschild, 1892
Lesser koa-finch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Psittirostra flaviceps Rothschild, 1892
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1891 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Hawaii (historically) and Oahu (prehistorically), Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rothschild, W. (1892). Description of seven new species of birds from the Sandwich Islands. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 10: 108-112.
Other references:
Banko, W. E. (1986). History of endemic Hawaiian birds. Part 1. Population histories – species accounts. Forest birds: Maui Parrotbill, ‘O’u, Palila, Greater Koa Finch, Lesser Koa Finch and Grosbeak Finch. Avian history report, no. 10, pp. 1–140. Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.
BirdLife International. (2012). Rhodacanthis flaviceps. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 May 2013.
BirdLife International. 2016. Rhodacanthis flaviceps. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22720745A94681389. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22720745A94681389.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
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.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Ehrlich, Paul R., Dobkin, David S. and Wheye, Darryl. (1992). Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 259 pp.
Elphick, Chris S., Roberts, David L. and Reed, J. Michael. (2010). Estimated dates of recent extinctions for North American and Hawaiian birds. Biological Conservation 143: 617-624.
Greenway James C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Special Publication no 13, 2nd edn. Dover Publications, New York.
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.
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.
James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. (1991). Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part 2. Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 46: 1-88.
James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. (2005). The diversity and biogeography of koa-finches (Drepanidini: [i]Rhodacanthis[/i]), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144: 527–541, 6 figs.
James, Helen F. and Price, J. P. (2008). Integration of palaeontological, historical, and geographical data on the extinction of koa-finches. Diversity and Distributions 14(3): 441-451.
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. 254]
Olson, Storrs L. (1999). Kona Grosbeak (Chloridops kona), Greater Koa-Finch (Rhodacanthis palmeri), Lesser Koa-Finch (Rhodacanthis flaviceps). No. 424 in: Poole, A.F. & Gill, F.B. eds. (1996). The Birds of North America. Vol. 11. Academy of Natural Sciences & American Ornithologists' Union, Philadelphia & Washington, D.C.
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)]
Stattersfield, A.J., Crosby, M.J., Long, A.J. and Wege, D.C. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.