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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.
Among birds, the Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare), a gaudy-colored passerine, seems to occur nowhere else anymore than on Hahajima. [6] The extinct Bonin grosbeak (Chaunoproctus ferreorostris) is sometimes said to have occurred in the Hahajima Group (though not on Haha-jima itself), but this seems not to be true.
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 ...
The Japanese woodpigeon was extirpated in the Iwo Island groups in the 1980s. 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.
Bonin petrel, Pterodroma hypoleuca; Black-winged petrel, Pterodroma nigripennis (A) Stejneger's petrel, Pterodroma longirostris (A) Bulwer's petrel, Bulweria bulwerii; Tahiti petrel, Pseudobulweria rostrata (A) Streaked shearwater, Calonectris leucomelas; Pink-footed shearwater, Ardenna creatopus (A) Flesh-footed shearwater, Ardenna carneipes
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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 ...