Pseudobulweria/Pterodroma sp. nov. ‘Rodrigues’

Bourne’s petrel

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: c.1726 (Tyrberg, 2009:71)

Distribution

Rodrigues

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Bourne, W. R. P. (1968). The birds of Rodriguez, Indian Ocean. Ibis 110(3): 338-344.

Cheke AS (1987) An ecological history of the Mascarene Islands, with particular reference to extinctions and introductions of land vertebrates. In Diamond AW, ed., Studies of Mascarene Island Birds, pp. 5–89. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Cheke, Anthony S. (2013). Extinct birds of the Mascarenes and Seychelles - a review of the causes of extinction in the light of an important new publication on extinct birds. Phelsuma 21: 4-19.

Cheke, Anthony and Hume, Julian Pender. (2008). Lost Land of the Dodo. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 464 pp.

Cowles, Graham S. (1987). The fossil record, pp. 90-100. In: Diamond, A. W. (ed.). Studies of Mascarene Island Birds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Gill, F. B. (1967). Birds of Rodriguez Island (Indian Ocean). Ibis 109: 383-390. [Summary]

Hume, Julian Pender. (2013). A synopsis of the pre-human avifauna of the Mascarene Islands, pp. 195-237. In: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien.

Hume, J.P. (2017) Extinct Birds 2nd Edition

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)]

Tafforet, J. (c.1726). Relation de l'Isle Rodrigue. Anonymous MS in the Archives Nationales, Paris.

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.

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/11096/pterodrama-sp-nov-rodriguez

<< Back to the Procellariiformes (Albatrosses, Petrels, Shearwaters and Storm Petrels) database