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Zosterops strenuus Gould, 1855:166

Robust white-eye, Lord Howe white-eye, Lord Howe white eye, Robust silvereye, Big grinnell

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Zosterops strenua Gould, 1855:166; Zosterops tenuirostris strenuus Gould, 1855:166; Nesozosterops strenua Gould, 1855:166

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1908 (BirdLife International, 2012)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: BMNH 1855.10.23.2 (adult, female)

 

Other specimens:

[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=19]RMNH 110.011[/url]

[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=19]RMNH 110.012[/url] (adult)

 

Media

Above: illustration from Mathews (1928).

 

References

Original scientific description:

Gould, John. (1855). On some new species of birds collected by Mr McGillivray. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1855(23): 164-166.

 

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2012). Zosterops strenuus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 May 2013.

BirdLife International. 2016. Zosterops strenuus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22714223A94406811. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22714223A94406811.en. Accessed on 30 June 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.

Christidis, L. and Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW). (2007). Lord Howe Island Biodiversity Management Plan Appendices. Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW), Sydney. vii + 267 pp.

Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.

Garnett, Stephen (ed.). (1992). Threatened and Extinct Birds of Australia. RAOU Report Number 82. 212 pp.

Garnett, S. T. and Crowley, G. M. (2000). The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000. Canberra, ACT: Environment Australia & Birds Australia.

Garnett, S. T.; Szabo, J. K.; Dutson, G. 2011. The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood.

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.

Hindwood, Keith A. (1938). The extinct birds of Lord Howe Island. Australian Museum Magazine 6(9): 319-324.

Hindwood, Keith A. (1940). The birds of Lord Howe Island. Emu 40: 1-86.

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.

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]

Hutton, Ian. (1991). Birds of Lord Howe Island: Past and Present. Coffs Harbour Plaza, N.S.W.: Self Published. 154 pp.

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. 225-226]

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. 53, pl. 27]

McAllan, Ian A. W., Curtis, Brian R., Hutton, Ian and Cooper, Richard M. (2004). The Birds of Lord Howe Island Group: A Review of Records. Australian Field Ornithology 21(Supplement): 1-82.

McCulloch, Allan R. (1921). Lord Howe Island–a naturalist's paradise. Australian Museum Magazine 1(2): 31-47.

Mees, G. F. (1969). A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part iii). Zoologische Verhandelingen 102: 1-390.

Recher, H. F. (1974). Colonisation and extinction: the birds of Lord Howe Island. Australian Natural History 18(2): 64-69.

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)]

Schodde, R. and Mason, I. J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines. CSIRO, Collingwood, Victoria.

Sharland, M. S. R. (1929). Land birds of Lord Howe Island. Emu 29: 5-11.

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.

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.

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

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