Tachycineta euchrysea euchrysea (Gosse, 1847)
Jamaican golden swallow, Golden swallow
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 8 June 1989 (Raffaele et al., 1998?)
IUCN RedList status: "probably extinct"
Distribution
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gosse, P. H. (1847). The Birds of Jamaica. London: John Van Voorst.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Tachycineta euchrysea. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 30 August 2013.
Downer, A. (1982). Is the Golden Swallow declining? Gosse Bird Club Broadsheet 39: 13. [relevant citation?]
Graves, Gary R. (2013). Historical decline and probable extinction of the Jamaican Golden Swallow Tachycineta euchrysea euchrysea. Bird Conservation International 24(2): 239-251.
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
Osburn, W. (1858). Notes on the birds of Jamaica. Reproduced in:. Gosse Bird Club Broadsheet 39[1982]: 5-7.
Osburn, W. (1869). Notes on the mountain birds of Jamaica. The Zoologist 208: 6709-6722, 6833-6841.
Proctor, C. Justin et al. (2015). Status of the Critically Endangered Jamaican Golden Swallow (summary). LaPaz group blog post (1 May 2015), available at: https://lapazgroup.net/2015/05/01/status-of-the-critically-endangered-jamaican-golden-swallow/#more-54250
Proctor, C. Justin, Inman, Seth E., Zeiger, John M. and Graves, Gary R. (2017). Last search for the Jamaican Golden Swallow (Tachycineta e. euchrysea). Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 30(1): 69-74.
Raffaele, H.; Wiley, J.; Garrido, O.; Keith, A.; Raffaele, J. (1998). Birds of the West Indies. London: Christopher Helm.
https://raxacollective.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/the-golden-swallow-expedition/
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/18419/tachycineta-euchrysea-jamaican-golden-swallow