Pterodroma cahow Nichols & Mowbray, 1916:94

Bermuda petrel, Cahow

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Aestrelata cahow Nichols & Mowbray, 1916:94; Aestrelata vociferans Shufeldt, 1916

Conservation Status

Last record: c.1621

Rediscovered in 1951

Distribution

Bermuda

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Nichols and Mowbray, Louis A. (1916). Two New Forms of Petrels From the Bermudas. Auk 33(2): 194-195.

Other references:

A., J. A. (1902). Verrill's 'The Story of the Cahow'. Auk 19(1): 110-111.

Afonso, Rita Oliveira. (2021). Population genomics of the endangered Bermuda petrel. Dissertation, Universidade de Lisboa.

Anonymous. (1964). List of rare birds, including those thought to be so but of which detailed information is still lacking. IUCN Bulletin 10(Special Supplement): 4 pp.

Beebe, W. (1935). Rediscovery of the Bermuda Cahow. Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society, 38: 187-190.

BirdLife International. (2012). Pterodroma cahow. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 July 2012.

Bried, Joël. (2003). A Bermuda Petrel on the Azores - a new Western Palearctic bird. Birding World 16: 22.

Bried, Joël and Magalhães, Maria C. (2004). First Palearctic record of the endangered Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow. Bull. B.O.C. 124(3): 202-206.

Dobson, A. (2009). First Cahow hatches on Nonsuch Island for nearly 400 years. Bermuda Audubon Society Newsletter 20(1): 1-2.

Gehrman, Elizabeth. (2012). Rare birds: the extraordinary tale of the Bermuda petrel and the man who brought it back from extinction. Boston. 240 pp.

Kannan, R., Chander, B., Jackson II, J. L. and Chandler, T. (2021). Remote Ornithology: Studying Nesting Behavior of Bermuda Petrels via Live Webcam. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 75: 85-89. https://doi.org/10.54119/jaas.2021.7512

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.

Madeiros, J. L. (2002). Bermuda’s remarkable Cahow. World Birdwatch 24: 16-18.

Madeiros, J. (2003). Report on the 2003 Cahow nesting season - another record year! Bermuda Audubon Society Newsletter 14: 8-9.

Madeiros, J. (2008). Cahow nesting season update April 2008. Bermuda Audubon Society Newsletter 19(1): 2-5.

Madeiros, J. (2009). Cahow update. Bermuda Audubon Society Newsletter 20(2): 2-3.

Madeiros, J. (2011). Cahow Report. Bermuda Audubon Society Newsletter 22(1): 5-6.

Murphy, R. C. and Mowbray, L. S. (1951). New light on the Cahow, Pterodroma cahow. Auk 68(3): 266-280.

Olson, Storrs L. (2004). Taxonomic review of the fossil Procellariidae (Aves: Procellariiformes) described from Bermuda by R.W. Shufeldt. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117(4): 575-581.

Procter, D. and Fleming, L. V. (eds.). (1999). Biodiversity: the UK Overseas Territories. Peterborough, Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

Sangster, George et al. (2011). Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: seventh report. Ibis 153(4): 883-892.

Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]

Scofield, R. Paul. (2009). Procellariiform extinctions in the Holocene: threat processes and wider ecosystem-scale implications, pp. 151-166. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Scott, Peter (ed.). (1965). Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds, pp. 155-237. In: The Launching of a New Ark. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961-1964. London: Collins.

Shufeldt, R. W. (1922). A comparative study of some subfossil remains of birds from Bermuda, including the “Cahow”. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 13: 333-418.

Tristram, H. B. (1902). The "cahowe" of the Bermudas. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7)9: 447-448.

Verrill, A. E. (1901). The Story of the Cahow. The Mysterious Extinct Bird of the Bermudas. Popular Science Monthly Vol. LX: 22-30.

Verrill A. E. (1902a). The Bermuda Islands. Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci. 11(2): 413-849.

Verrill A. E. (1902b). The ‘Cahow’ of the Bermudas, an extinct bird. Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 7: 26–31.

Verrill, A. E. (1908). The Cahow: discovery in Bermuda of fossil bones and feathers. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 1: 533-534.

Wetmore, Alexander. (1938). Bird remains from the West Indies. Auk 55: 51-55.

Wingate, D. (1997). The Cahow species account. In: Lee, D.S.; Schreiber, E.A.; Walsh-McGehee, M. (ed.), CBIRDS: the workshop. Draft species account, Society for Caribbean Ornithology, Aruba.

Wingate, D. B.; Hass, T.; Brinkley, E. S.; Patterson, J. B. (1998). Identification of Bermuda Petrel. Birding 30: 19-36.

http://www.scillypelagics.com/Bermuda_Atlantic_range.html

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/15074/bermuda-storm-petrel-cahow

Other publications:

Other publications are available through the website of the Bermuda Audobon Society.

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