Martinique Amazon
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Martinique Amazone ( Amazona martinicana ) |
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The Martinique Amazon ( Amazona martinicana ) is an extinct Amazon pagrot from Martinique , an island that belongs to the Lesser Antilles .
This parrot species was first mentioned in 1742 by Jean-Baptiste Labat with the words: “ This parrot is too common a bird for me to bother to describe it. “In 1779 the species was described again by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon . Since there are no bones or other preserved material, Austin Hobart Clark wrote the first scientific description in 1905 based on the descriptions of Labat and Buffon. Lionel Walter Rothschild assigned this Amazon to the hypothetical species in his work Extinct Birds in 1907 .
The Martinique Amazon is said to have looked very similar to the also extinct violet Amazon ( Amazona violacea ) from the island of Guadeloupe . Some scientists, like the American ornithologist James Cowan Greenway, suspect that both species were conspecific . The head, neck and underside of the Martinique Amazon were gray, the back was green.
The Martinique Amazon was extinct by 1800, presumably through habitat destruction and overhunting.
literature
- James C. Greenway: Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World . Dover Publications Inc., New York 1967, ISBN 0-486-21869-4 .
- Errol Fuller: Extinct Birds . 2000, ISBN 0-8160-1833-2 .
- David Day: The Doomsday Book of Animals . Ebury Press, London 1981, ISBN 0-670-27987-0 .
- Edwin Antonius: Lexicon of extinct birds and mammals . Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-931587-76-2 .
Web links
- Amazona martinica in endangered species red list of the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.