Zosterops albogularis Gould, 1837
White-chested white-eye, White-breasted white-eye, White-breasted silvereye
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2010:310):
Zosterops albogularis Gould, 1837: Synop. Birds Australia 1: pl. 18 – “Murrumbidgee River”, error for Norfolk Island (fide Mathews 1928, Birds Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands: 51).; Zosterops gularis [sic] Gould; Lesson 1840, Rev. de Zool., Paris: 135.; Zosterops albigularis Gould; Sharpe 1884, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 9: 154. Unjustified emendation.; Nesozosterops albogularis (Gould); Mathews & Iredale 1920, Austral Avian Rec. 4: 110.; Zosterops albogularis Gould; Moore 1999, Notornis 46: 364.
Conservation Status
Missing or extinct (Low & Booth, 2023)
Last record: 1978 (Martin et al., 2023); 1980 (Moore, 1981); 2000 (Butchart et al., 2006); 2005 (Hirschfield, 2007)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Norfolk Island, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: illustration from Mathews (1928).
References
Original scientific description:
Gould, John. (1837). A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls.
Other references:
Bell, B. D. (1990). The Status and Management of the White-breasted White-eye and Other Birds on Norfolk Island. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Melbourne.
BirdLife International. (2012). Zosterops albogularis. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 August 2013.
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
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. 310]
Christian, Margaret. (2005). Norfolk Island: The Birds. Norfolk Island: Green Eyes Publications. [relevant citation?]
Dutson, G. (2013). Population densities and conservation status of Norfolk Island forest birds. Bird Conservation International 23(3): 271-282.
Garnett, Stephen (ed.). (1992). Threatened and Extinct Birds of Australia. RAOU Report Number 82. 212 pp.
Garnett, S., & Baker, G. B. (2020). The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020. CSIRO Publishing.
Garnett, S. T. and Crowley, G. M. (2000). The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000. Canberra, ACT: Environment Australia & Birds Australia.
Hermes, N. (1985). Birds of Norfolk Island. Norfolk Island: Wonderland.
Hermes, N., Evans, O. and Evans, B. 1986. Norfolk Island Birds: a review 1985. Notornis 33: 141-149.
Hirschfeld, E. (ed.). (2007). Rare Birds Yearbook 2008. Shrewsbury, England: Magdig Media Ltd.
Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 119-187.
Hoser, Raymond T. (1991). Endangered Animals of Australia. Mosman, NSW: Pierson & Co. 240 pp. [pp. 134]
Hull, Arthur Francis Basset. (1909). The birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34: 636-693, pls. l-liv. [p. 690]
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. [pp. 226-227]
Lesson, R. P. (1840). II. Analyses d'Ouvrages nouveau. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 3: 144-145.
Low, Tim and Booth, Carol. (2023). GONE: Australian animals extinct since the 1960s. Invasive Species Council Inc.
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)]
Mathews, Gregory Macalister. (1928). The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant: with additions to "birds of Australia". London: H.F. & G. Witherby. xii + 139 pp, pls 1-45. [p. 51, pl. 27]
McKean, J. L., Evans, O. and Lewis, J. H. (1976). Notes on the birds of Norfolk Island. Notornis 23: 299-301.
Mees, G. F. (1969). A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part iii). Zoologische Verhandelingen 102: 1-390.
Moore, J. L. (1981). Norfolk Island notes 1971-1980. Notornis 28: 50-56.
Moore, J. L. (1999). Norfolk Island bird notes, 1977 to 1997. Notornis 46: 354-364.
North, A. J. Ornithological notes. Rec. Australia. Mus. 5: 50-56.
Robinson, D. (1988). Ecology and management of the Scarlet Robin, White-breasted White-eye and Long-billed White-eye on Norfolk Island. Report to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra.
Rooke, I. (1986). Survey of the White Breasted White-eye and the Norfolk Island Boobook Owl on Norfolk Island, October-November 1985. RAOU Report 22.
Schodde, R., Fullagar, P. and Hermes, N. (1983). A review of Norfolk Island birds: past and present. Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra.
Schodde, R. and Mason, I. J. (1999). The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing. x + 851 pp.
Sharpe, R.B. 1884. Aves. pp. 11-28 in Sharpe, R.B. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. "Alert" 1881-2. London : British Museum (Natural History) xxv + 684 pp.
Smithers, C. N. and Disney, H. J. de S. (1969). The distribution of terrestrial and freshwater birds on Norfolk Island. Aust. Zool. 15: 127-140.
Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. Additional species described by Gould from Norfolk, Lord Howe, and Philip Islands. Austral Avian Records 1: 182-183.
Woinarski, John C. Z., Braby, M. F., Burbidge, A. A., Coates, D., Garnett, S. T., Fensham, R. J., Legge, S. M., McKenzie, N. L., Silcock, J L. and Murphy, B. P. (2019). Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia. Biological Conservation 239: 108261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108261
Woinarski, John C. Z., Legge, Sarah M. and Garnett, Stephen T. (2024). Extinct Australian birds: numbers, characteristics, lessons and prospects. Emu 124(1): 8-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2023.2240345
http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=KixK4CZQZp0C&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&ots=6OAtdS7Poo&sig=I75-kDP43Q5rKzpLU_PqwprwOd0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/norfolk-island-ghost-birds.htm [Guy Dutson failed to record this species in 2009]