Cebu parrot oak
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Cebu parrot oaks ( Loriculus philippensis chrysonotus ) |
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The Cebu parrot oak ( Loriculus philippensis chrysonotus ) is an extinct subspecies of the Philippines parrot oak ( Loriculus philippensis ). It was endemic to the Philippines island of Cebu .
features
The Cebu parrot oak reached a length of 14 cm and a wingspan of 18 cm. The plumage was mostly green. The forehead, throat, upper chest and rump were red. The skull and neck were characterized by varying amounts of yellow. The beak was coral red, the iris was dark brown, and the legs and feet were orange. In contrast to the Philippines parrot, the front forehead area was red, the rest of the top of the head, the neck and the front back were rich golden yellow. The throat was pale reddish in color. The lower part of the red throat patch was more orange. The females were similar to the males, but their plumage was less intense.
Way of life
The Cebu parrot oak inhabited the primary forests in the lowlands and on the hills as well as secondary forests and coconut groves. Like the other breeds of the Philippine Parrot, it presumably went foraging on the upper floors of the forest, feeding on flowers, nectar, fruits and seeds.
die out
The Cebu parrot oak disappeared due to the almost complete deforestation of Cebu. In 1873 it was still common in the woods near Toledo City . During an expedition in 1888, ornithologists Frank Swift Bourns and Dean Conant Worcester were only able to find one specimen despite a search lasting several days in the large coconut groves near Carmen . In 1906 Richard Crittenden McGregor and his assistants had difficulty finding forest remains on Cebu. Only one specimen of the Cebu bat parrot could be collected on the expedition. Around 1908, the extinction of this subspecies in the wild was suspected, but there are authors who record evidence from the years 1920 and 1929. A number of Cebu Bat Parrots are believed to have lived in London Zoo between 1929 and 1943 . In 1997, in a remote part of central Cebu, a specimen of the Cebu parrot was discovered and caught in the dense foliage. In subsequent searches, however, there was no more evidence and an unconfirmed sighting from 2004 is probably based on a confusion with a subspecies of the Philippines parrot introduced on Cebu. Bellows are located in the Natural History Museum at Tring and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walters & Hume (2012), p. 168
- ↑ Baud, FJ (1976) Oiseaux des Philippines de la collection W. Parsons. I. Cebu, Samar, Romblon, Tablas et Sibuyan. Revue Suisse Zool. 83: 497-51
- ^ Rand, AL (1959) Late records of the Cebu Golden-backed Hanging Parakeet. Avicult. Mag. 65: S. 177-178.
- ↑ Guy Dutson et al. (1993): The rediscovery of the Cebu Flowerpecker Dicaeum quadricolor, with notes on otherforest birds on Cebu, Philippines , p. 239 f Online
literature
- Michael Walters & Julian Pender Hume: Extinct Birds . Poiser Monographes (A & C Black), 2012. ISBN 978-140-815-725-1 , p. 168.
- Dieter Luther: The extinct birds of the world . 4th edition, unchanged reprint of the edition from 1986. Magdeburg: Westkarp-Wiss and Heidelberg: Spektrum Akad. Verlag. 1995: p. 110