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Post by Melanie on May 10, 2005 21:04:34 GMT
Kosrae Starling Aplonis corvina was endemic to the mountain forests of Kosrae, Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia. It is only known from two specimens, both collected by Kittlitz in 1828, and both now in St Petersburg. It was extinct by the time that Finsch visited the island in 1880, presumably as a result of depredation by introduced rats, which are abundant on the island.
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Post by another specialist on Jun 5, 2005 4:32:45 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jun 14, 2005 10:40:19 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jun 14, 2005 10:58:57 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jun 14, 2005 11:20:39 GMT
  Kusaie Island Starling Kusaie Island starling The Kusaie Island Starling Aplonis corvina ( Kittlitz, 1833) was discovered by Friedrich von Kittlitz during his voyage to the Pacific in the 1820's. As was the case with the Bonin Islands grosbeak, Von Kittlitz was the only naturalist who ever saw this species alive. In 1880 Otto Finsch, who later became curator of the bird collection in Leiden, visited the island, but was unable to find the starling. He did find closely related starlings on Ponape. www.naturalis.nl/300pearls/default.asp |
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Post by another specialist on Jun 20, 2005 6:23:05 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Nov 6, 2005 17:11:44 GMT
 Gap in nature |
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Post by another specialist on Nov 11, 2005 20:59:16 GMT
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Post by Carlos on Sept 7, 2007 17:06:12 GMT
Kosrae Starling Aplonis corvina (Kittlitz, 1833) RMNH 90380: adult, male. Interior of Kushai (Kosrae), Caroline Islands. Collector: Kittlitz, 1827. Syntype of Lamprothornis corvina Kittlitz, 1833. RMNH 90381: juvenile, female. Interior of Kushai (Kosrae), Caroline Islands. Collector: Kittlitz, 1827. Syntype of Lamprothornis corvina Kittlitz, 1833. Kosrae (or Kusaie) and Ponape are two of the Caroline Islands, an archipelago in the West Pacific. For a long time it was thought that the two skins of the Kosrae Starling in St. Petersburg were all that remained of this species. However, in 1966 Gerlof Mees, curator of birds in Leiden, found two skins in the collection of Naturalis. Furthermore, the museum in St. Petersburg discovered it did not have two, but three skins of this starling. The Kosrae Starling was discovered by Friedrich von Kittlitz during his voyage to the Pacific in the 1820s. As was the case with the Bonin Islands Grosbeak Chaunoproctus ferreorostris, von Kittlitz was the only naturalist who ever saw this species alive. In 1880 Otto Finsch, who later became curator of the bird collection in Leiden, visited the island, but was unable to find the starling. He did find closely related starlings on Pohnpei. The skin of a male Pohnpei Starling in Leiden was probably collected by Finsch, since it was obtained from the Godeffroy Museum in Hamburg, which financed Finsch's voyage. On Pohnpei the starlings survived much longer than on Kosrae. The last reliable sighting dates from 1956. In 1995 a specimen was shot by a local hunter and donated to American researchers. After that the species has not been no sighted again.   RMNH 90380, RMNH 90381
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Post by surroundx on Feb 4, 2012 9:43:52 GMT
The IUCN still states that only two specimens exist, both in St. Petersburg even though (Mees, 1964) found that 5 specimens exist. There are actually three specimens in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad (discovered to be the case by Prof. A. I. Ivanov), and two newly discovered (in 1964) specimens in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden. The Naturalis website linked to by Carlos states that Gerlof Mees found the specimens in the Leiden collection in 1966, which is clearly an error since the paper anouncing the discovery of the specimens was published in 1964, two years before, in the ornithological journal Ibis. ardeajournal.natuurinfo.nl/ardeapdf/a52-190-193.pdf(The article is in Dutch, so hopefully Peter can translate any important pieces of information in the paper) Julian Hume has also authored a paper on this species, however Google Scholar only lists a citation, so we cannot even access an abstract of the paper to see the content. However, he made a mistake in the paper, and so published another paper (a short correction) in 2003, along with Alan Peterson (the person behind the excellent www.zoonomen.net website on ornithological nomenclature), which is available online: julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Aplonis-publication-date.pdf |
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Post by Melanie on Feb 18, 2013 2:34:22 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Jan 3, 2016 2:41:07 GMT
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Post by Sebbe on Jan 25, 2017 21:15:08 GMT
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Post by Sebbe on Jan 25, 2017 21:28:22 GMT
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