Colaptes auratus rufipileus Ridgway, 1876
Guadalupe flicker, Northern flicker (generic)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Colaptes cafer rufipileus Ridgway, 1876
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1906 (Barton et al. 2004)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Guadalupe Island, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
At least 12 preserved specimens exist (excluding the holotype, which probably still exists).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ridgway 1876 Bull.U.S.Geol.Geogr.Surv.Terr.(2) 2 p.191
Other references:
Barton, D.C., Lindquist, K.E., Henry, R.W. and Luna Mendoza, L.M. (2004). Landbird and Waterbird Notes from Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. Western Birds 35(4): 186-196.
BirdLife International. (2012). Colaptes auratus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 August 2013.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
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. 181]
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)]
Sweet, P. R., G. F. Barrowclough, J. T. Klicka, L. Montanez-Godoy, and P. Escalante-Pliego. (2001). Recolonization of the flicker and other notes from Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. Western Birds 32(1): 71-80.
Winkler, H. and Christie, D.A. (2001). Family Picidae (Woodpeckers). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and J. Sargatal eds). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.