Nycticorax caledonicus crassirostris Vigors, 1839:27

Bonin night heron, Bonin night-heron

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1879 (Day, 1981); 1889 (Fuller, 1988; Hume & Walters, 2012:72)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution & Habitat

Peel Island (=Chichi Jima) and Nakondo Shima (=Nakōdo-jima), Ogasawara Islands (=Bonin Islands), Japan

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Vigors, N. A. (1839). The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits, performed in H.M.S. Blossom under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825-28: Ornithology. London: Henry G. Bohn.

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2012). Nycticorax caledonicus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 25 August 2013.

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

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

Hume, Julian Pender. (In Press, 2023). Osteological and historical data on extinct island night herons (Aves: Ardeidae), with special reference to Ascension Island, the Mascarenes and Bonin Islands. Geobios. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.01.009

Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.

Kittlitz, F. H. v. (1832-33). Kupfertafeln zur Naturgeschicte der Vögel. Frankfurt am Main: Johan David Sauerländer.

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.

Martínez-Vilalta, A. and Motis, A. (1992). Family Ardeidae (Herons). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 1: Ostrich to Ducks. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.

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)]

Seebohm, H. (1890). On the birds of the Bonin Islands. Ibis S6(2): 95-108.

Walden, A. V. (1877 [1875]). A list of the birds known to inhabit the Philippine Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 9: 125-252.

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