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The Bonin grosbeak or Bonin Islands grosbeak (Carpodacus ferreorostris) is an extinct finch. It is one of the diverse bird taxa that are vernacularly called "grosbeaks", but it is not closely related to the grosbeaks sensu stricto. Many authorities place the species in the genus Carpodacus, but some place it in its own genus, Chaunoproctus.
The formerly endemic Bonin pigeon (Columba versicolor), Bonin thrush (Zoothera terrestris) and Bonin grosbeak (Carpodacus ferreorostris) are now extinct. [ 16 ] A small bat, Sturdee's pipistrelle , is only known in one record and has not been seen since 1915.
The name Bonin comes from an 1817 article in the French Journal des Savans by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in which—among various other misunderstandings of his source material [3] —he misread a description of the islands as uninhabited (無人嶋, "desert island[s]") for their actual name, used the wrong reading of the characters (buninshima for mujintō), and then transcribed the resulting ...
The Northern grosbeak-canary or Abyssinian grosbeak-canary, Crithagra donaldsoni; The Southern grosbeak-canary or Kenya grosbeak-canary, Crithagra buchanani; In addition, there are two extinct Fringillidae "grosbeaks": The Bonin grosbeak (Chaunoproctus ferreorostris), found only on the Ogasawara Islands, which was last recorded in 1832. Its ...
This list includes 18 extinct species, the Bonin grosbeak and 17 Hawaiian honeycreepers. [ 1 ] This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name, binomial, population, and status.
Bonin Grosbeak [1] Kangaroo Island Emu (subsp.) [1] White Gallinule [1] 1837 Oahu O-O, [1] 1840 Dieffenbach's Rail [1] Mascarene Parrot [1] 1842 Jamaican Green and Yellow Macaw [1] 1844 Great Auk [1] c. 1850 Black-fronted parakeet [1] Commerson's Scops Owl [1] Kioea, [1] a honeyeater; Kittlitz's Rail [1] Giant Moa (Dinornis maximus) [1] Moa ...
Natural history of the Ogasawara Islands (informally Bonin Islands) — a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical & tropical islands in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Hahajima, Haha Jima, or Haha-jima (母島, meaning Mother Island) is the second-largest island within the Bonin or Ogasawara Islands SSE of the Japanese Home Islands.The steeply-sloped island, which is about 21 km 2 (8 sq mi) in area, has a population of 440. [1]