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APPENDIX - Threatened, endangered, and extinct birds of Norfolk Island

 

List of bird species likely to be adversely affected by continuation of present policies and management, and those for which “replacement” populations could be sourced to restore the Norfolk Island terrestrial and marine bird fauna.

 

Endemic songbirds

Rhipidura pelzelni                                                                   Norfolk Island fantail

Pachycephala xanthoprocta                                                    Norfolk Island whistler

Gerygone modesta                                                                  Norfolk Island warbler

 

Threatened birds

Zosterops tenuirostris                                                            Slender-billed white-eye

Petroica multicolor                                                                 Pacific robin

 

Endangered birds

Sula tasmani                                                                            Tasman booby

[Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata × novaeseelandiae                        Norfolk Island morepork]

N. n. undulata is technically extinct; the hybrid exists in small numbers

Cyanorhamphus cookii                                                               Norfolk Island green parrot

Zosterops albogularis                                                                                  White-breasted white-eye

 

 

Endangered birds (formerly on main island)

Pterodroma solandri                                                               Providence petrel

Pterodroma neglecta                                                               Kermadec petrel

Pterodroma pycrofti                                                                Pyrcroft’s petrel

Pelagodroma albiclunis                                                          Kermadec storm petrel

 

Extinct birds (formerly on main island)

Gallirallus sp.                                                                          Norfolk Island flightless rail

Porphyrio sp.                                                                          Norfolk Island swamphen

Coenocorypha sp.                                                                   Norfolk Island snipe

Accipiter cf. fasciatus                                                              Brown? goshawk

Hemiphaga spadicea                                                                Norfolk Island pigeon

Gallicolumba norfolciensis                                                         Norfolk Island ground dove

Nestor productus                                                                    Norfolk Island kaka

Lalage leucopyga                                                                    Norfolk Island triller

Turdus poliocephalus                                                               Grey-headed blackbird

Aplonis fusca                                                                          Norfolk Island starling