Aplonis ulietensis (Gmelin, 1788)
Bay thrush, Chestnut thrush, Raiatea starling, Bay starling, Ra’iatea thrush
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Turdus ulietensis Gmelin, 1788; Turdus badius Forster (year?)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: May 1774
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Raiatea (=Ulietea), Leeward Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gmelin, J. F. (1788). Caroli a Linné, Systema naturae per regna tria naturae secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I, part I. Lipsiae: Impensis Georg. Emmanuel Beer.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2016). Aplonis ulietensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22734867A104350549. Downloaded on 16 December 2016.
BirdLife International. (2017). Aplonis ulietensis (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22734867A119212332. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22734867A119212332.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020) Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.
Greenway James C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Special Publication no 13, 2nd edn. Dover Publications, New York.
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. 213]
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.
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