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Norfolk Island is an external territory of Australia in the Pacific between New Zealand and New Caledonia. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World , 2022 edition.
The Norfolk robin (Petroica multicolor), also known as the Norfolk Island scarlet robin or Norfolk Island robin, is a small bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is endemic to Norfolk Island , an Australian territory in the Tasman Sea , between Australia and New Zealand .
Both possums and rats significantly reduce the amount of fruit available for kererū, and they also prey on kererū eggs and nestlings; cats and stoats kill adults as well as young. [40] [51] On Norfolk Island, the local subspecies was last seen in 1900; direct hunting by people was probably the main cause of extinction. [52]
Extinct birds of Norfolk Island (8 P) Pages in category "Birds of Norfolk Island" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
A breeding pair of subsp. tasmani and their chick, Norfolk Island. S. d. dactylatra Lesson, 1831; Breeds in the Caribbean and some Atlantic islands including Ascension Island. There is significant genetic divergence between birds on Boatswain Bird Island off Ascension and those from Monito Island off Puerto Rico. [20] S. d. melanops Hartlaub, 1859
In 1986, the Norfolk Island National Park was established to save this bird from extinction, but because of the fluctuation of this species, surveys often remained unsuccessful. In 1978, only four individuals were monitored, and a sighting in 2000 resulted in one individual; bird watchers claimed to have seen the bird in 2005. [ 4 ]
Mutton-bird Egging on Mount Chappell Island (1893) Muttonbirding is the seasonal harvesting of the chicks of petrels, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers by recreational or commercial hunters. Such hunting of petrels and other seabirds has occurred in various locations since prehistoric times, and there is evidence that ...
George Robert Gray described the Norfolk parakeet in 1859 as Platycercus Cookii, from a specimen in William Bullock's museum, and recorded it as from New Zealand. [5] The species name honours James Cook, who reported the species on Norfolk Island when he landed there in 1774, noting it was the same as those occurring in New Zealand. [6]