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Aegolius gradyi Olson, 2012

Bermuda saw-whet owl

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene (1600's?); 1623 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Bermuda

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Olson, Storrs L. (2012). A new species of small owl of the genus Aegolius (Aves: Strigidae) from Quaternary deposits on Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125(2): 97-105. [Abstract]

 

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2014). Aegolius gradyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 July 2014.

BirdLife International. (2016). Aegolius gradyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T62184893A95192681. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T62184893A95192681.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N. J., Christie, D. A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L. D. C. (2014). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

Kittelberger, Kyle D., Tanner, Colby J., Buxton, Amy N., Prewett, Amira and Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı. (2024). Correlates of avian extinction timing around the world since 1500 CE. Avian Research 15: 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100213 [Supplementary data (List of 216 taxa)]

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)]

 

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