Pterodroma magentae Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869

Chatham Island taiko, Magenta petrel, Tāiko (Māori), tchaik (Moriori)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:135-136):

Aestrelata Magentae Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869: Ibis 5 (new series): 61 – South Pacific Ocean, at 39°38’S, 125°58’W.; Fulmarus (Astrelata) Magentae (Giglioli & Salvadori); G.R. Gray 1871, Hand-list Birds 3: 106.; Oestrelata magentae (Giglioli & Salvadori); Salvin 1896, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 25: 407.; Pterodroma cookii axillaris; Archey & Lindsay 1924, Rec. Cant. Museum 2(4): 189. Not Oestrelata axillaris Salvin, 1893.; Pterodroma inexpectata; C.A. Fleming 1939, Emu 38: 405. Not Procellaria inexpectata J.R. Forster, 1844.; Bulweria alba (Gmelin); Mathews 1948, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 68: 156. In part.; Pterodroma magentae (Giglioli & Salvadori); Bourne 1964, Notornis 11: 139.; Pterodroma macroptera; Dawson in Bourne 1964, Notornis 11: 141. Not Procellaria macroptera A. Smith, 1840.; Pterodroma (Pterodroma) magentae (Giglioli & Salvadori); Checklist Committee 1990, Checklist Birds N.Z.: 54.

Conservation Status

Last record: 1867 (1869?)

Rediscovered on 1 January 1978

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

Distribution

Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa:

OR.027715 (collected 24 February 2004)

Media

Above: Chatham Island Taiko, Pterodroma magentae, collected 24 February 2004, Tuku Valley, Chatham Island, New Zealand. Gift of Department of Conservation, 1998-2005. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (OR.027715)

References

Original scientific description:

(Giglioli & Salvadori) 1869 Ibis p.61

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2012). Pterodroma magentae. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 27 May 2013.

Bourne, W. R. P. (1964). The relationship between the Magenta Petrel and the Chatham Island Taiko. Notornis 11(3): 139-144.

Bourne, W. R. P. (1967). Subfossil petrel bones from the Chatham Islands. Ibis 109(1): 1-7. [Abstract]

Burns, B.; Innes, J.; Day, T. 2012. The use and potential of pest-proof fencing for ecosystem restoration and fauna conservation in New Zealand. Pp 65-90 in Hayward, M.W. & Somers, M.J. (eds), Fencing for conservation. New York, Springer.

Checklist Committee (E.G. Turbott, Convener). 1990. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Third edition. Auckland: Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Random Century New Zealand Ltd. xvi + 247 pp.

Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Te Papa Press, Wellington. [p. 89-90, 357]

Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2022). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition). Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 1. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand. [p. 127-128]

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Cooper, Joanne H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2004). Wrecks and residents: the subfossil gadfly petrels (Pterodroma spp.) of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, pp. 17. In: Buffetaut, Eric and Loeuff, Jean Le (eds.). Sixth International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, 28 September-3 October, 2004, Quillan, France. 70 pp.

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http://www.taiko.org.nz/

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