Species we have lost over the last quarter of a century

This one may end up a Fowl undertaking......

Gamebird taxa lost since 1990

Orange-footed Scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt) - this taxon was last held in 2005 at Prague. The only images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery are of a wild individual in Australia.

Elegant Quail (Callipepla douglasii) - this taxon was last held in 2009 at Walsrode. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Grey-headed Chachalaca (Ortalis cinereiceps) - this taxon was last held in 2011 at Blackbrook, one of ten European collections to hold the species in the timespan concerned; all of which were within the United Kingdom, and the majority within the last decade. Despite this, the only image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery is of a wild individual in Costa Rica.

Speckled Chachalaca (Ortalis guttata) - this taxon was last held in the early 1990s at Chester. The only image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery is of captive individuals in South America.

Little Chachalaca (Ortalis motmot) - this taxon was last held in 1999 at Dudley, one of several European collections to hold the species in the timespan concerned. There are a handful of images of this taxon in the Zoochat gallery, including this photograph taken in 1987 at Walsrode:



West Mexican Chachalaca (Ortalis poliocephala) - this taxon was last held in 2013 at Blackbrook, one of a few European collections to hold the species within the timespan concerned. There are a handful of images of this taxon in the Zoochat gallery, including the following photograph taken at Blackbrook in 2010:



Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula) - this taxon was last held in 1993 at Harewood. The only images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery are of captive individuals in Central and South America.

Marail Guan (Penelope marail) - this taxon was last held in 2002 at Dortmund. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Andean Guan (Penelope montagnii) - this taxon was last held in c.2004 at Rotterdam. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Black-fronted Piping Guan (Pipile jacutinga) - this taxon was last held in c.2010 at Walsrode. There is a single image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, taken at the aforementioned collection:



Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) - this taxon was last held in 1992 at Tierpark Berlin. The only images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery are of wild individuals in North America.

Siberian Grouse (Falcipennis falcipennis) - this taxon was last held in 2010 at Moscow. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Bornean Peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron schleiermacheri) - this taxon was last held in 2011 at Highland Wildlife Park, where a number of pairs were quarantined off-show on behalf of the World Pheasant Association. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Crested Argus (Rheinardia ocellata) - this taxon was last held in 2002 at Tierpark Berlin. The only images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery are of captive individuals in Asia.

Blood Pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus) - this taxon was last held in 2002 at Tierpark Berlin. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Bulwer's Pheasant (Lophura bulweri) - this taxon was last held in 2005 at Walsrode. There is a single image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, taken at the aforementioned collection in 2000:



Blyth's Tragopan (Tragopan blythii) - this taxon was last held in 2011 at Parc de Clères, one of several European collections to hold the species within the timespan in question. The only images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery are of captive individuals in North America.

See-see Partridge (Ammoperdix griseogularis) - this taxon was last held in 1997 at Moscow. The only image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery is of wild individuals in Asia.

Sand Partridge (Ammoperdix heyi) - this taxon was last held in the mid-1990s at Tierpark Berlin. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Sabah Hill Partridge (Arborophila graydoni) - this taxon was last held in the mid-1990s at Hamerton. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

White-faced Hill Partridge (Arborophila orientalis) - this taxon was last held in 2005 at Walsrode. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Sumatran Hill Partridge (Arborophila sumatrana) - this taxon was last held in 2013 at Plzen. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Rain Quail (Coturnix coromandelica) - this taxon was last held in 2012 at Plzen. There is a single image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, a photograph taken of the last individual in Europe:



Red-necked Francolin (Francolinus afer) - this taxon was last held in c.2012 at Plzen. There are a small number of images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, including the following:



Daurian Partridge (Perdix dauurica) - this taxon was last held in the early 2000s at Tierpark Berlin. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Southern Crested Guineafowl (Guttera edouardi) - this taxon was last held in the mid-1990s at Birdworld. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.
 
Species we have lost...

It is likely than both Rain and Elegant Quail are in private collections, and I am fairly sure I saw Seesee Partridge last year.
 
I'd imagine quite a lot of the taxa highlighted are still around in private collections - I know there are still a small handful of Blyth's Tragopan in Europe, for instance, and the Bornean Peacock-pheasants were imported *for* private breeding.
 
Considering how many parrot taxa are solely held at Loro Parque, this list may well be significantly shorter than it should be; certainly this is one group which makes me glad I am only covering losses at species level!

Parrot taxa lost since 1990

Papuan Lorikeet (Charmosyna papou) - this taxon was last held in 1999 at Zoo Augsburg. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery; all photographs labelled as this species are in fact images of Mount Goliath Papuan Lory (Charmosyna stellae goliathina).

Blue Lorikeet (Vini peruviana) - this taxon was last held in 2011 at Vogelpark Walsrode. There are a handful of images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, including the following photograph taken in 2009:



Yellow-throated Hanging Parrot (Loriculus pusillus) - this taxon was last held in 1996 at Vogelpark Walsrode. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Sulawesi Hanging Parrot (Loriculus stigmatus) - this taxon was last held in 2003 at Loro Parque. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Creamy-breasted Fig-parrot (Cyclopsitta amabilis) - this taxon was last held in 2003 at Loro Parque. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Black-fronted Fig-parrot (Cyclopsitta nigrifrons) - this taxon was last held in the mid-2000's at Loro Parque. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Red-cheeked Parrot (Geoffroyus geoffroyi) - this taxon was last held in the mid-1990's at Vogelpark Walsrode. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Blue-crowned Racquet-tail (Prioniturus discurus) - this taxon was last held in 1994 at Loro Parque. The only images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery are of wild individuals.

Turquoise-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus cyanopygius) - this taxon was last held in the early 2000's at Loro Parque. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Yellow-faced Parrotlet (Forpus xanthops) - this taxon was last held in 2002 at Chester. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Caica Parrot (Pyrilia caica) - this taxon was last held in 2011 at Veldhoven NOP. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Red-necked Amazon (Amazona arausiaca) - this taxon was last held in the early 2000's at Loro Parque. There is a single image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, taken at Vogelpark Walsrode in the 1980's:



Spix's Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) - this taxon was last held in 2014 at Loro Parque. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Cuban Conure (Psittacara euops) - this taxon was last held in 2004 at Aqualeon-Aquapark. There is a single image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, taken at Birdworld in 1981:



Maroon-tailed Conure (Pyrrhura melanura) - this taxon was last held in 2012 at Veldhoven NOP. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.
 
A few odds and ends now.....

Mousebird taxa lost since 1990

Red-backed Mousebird (Colius castanotus) - this taxon was last held in 2001 at Paignton. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

White-backed Mousebird (Colius colius) - this taxon was last held in 1996 at Vogelpark Avifauna. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Red-faced Mousebird (Urocolius indicus) - this taxon was last held in 2008 at Magdeburg. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Trogon taxa lost since 1990

Sumatran Trogon (Apalharpactes mackloti) - this taxon was last held in 2011 at Vogelpark Walsrode. There are a handful of images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, including the following photograph taken in 2009:



Javan Trogon (Apalharpactes reinwardtii) - this taxon was last held in c.2008 at Zurich Voliere. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Diard's Trogon (Harpactes diardii) - this taxon was last held in 2004 at Vogelpark Walsrode. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Red-headed Trogon (Harpactes erythrocephalus) - this taxon was last held in 2012 at Zurich Voliere. There are a handful of images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, including the following image:



Orange-breasted Trogon (Harpactes oreskios) - this taxon was last held in 2004 at Vogelpark Walsrode. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Crested Quetzal (Pharomachrus antisianus) - this taxon was last held in c.2011 at Amazon World. There are a handful of images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, including the following photograph taken in 2010:



Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) - this taxon was last held in 1996 at Vogelpark Walsrode. There are a few images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, including the following photograph from the 1980's:



Pavonine Quetzal (Pharomachrus pavoninus) - this taxon was last held in 2002 at Wuppertal. There are no images of the taxon within the Zoochat gallery.

Orange-bellied Trogon (Trogon aurantiiventris) - this taxon was last held in 1995 at Vogelpark Walsrode. The only image of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery is of a wild individual in Costa Rica.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Papuan Lorikeet (Charmosyna papou) - this taxon was last held in 1999 at Zoo Augsburg. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery; all photographs labelled as this species are in fact images of Mount Goliath Papuan Lory (Charmosyna stellae goliathina).
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This one's a matter of taxonomic opinion: the IOC treat stellae and goliathina as subspecies of C. papou.

TeaLovingDave said:
Yellow-faced Parrotlet (Forpus xanthops) - this taxon was last held in 2002 at Chester. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.
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This species was still at Walsrode until at least 2007 (when I saw them for the first time).
 
robmv said:
This one's a matter of taxonomic opinion: the IOC treat stellae and goliathina as subspecies of C. papou.
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Handbook of the Birds of the World (which is what I usually follow personally) lists C. papou as a monotypic species with goliathina being a subspecies of C. stellae. But as you said, a matter of taxonomic opinion.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Excellent :) a nice looking taxon, all things considered!

One wonders how many species I shall shortly see at Walsrode and Vogelpark Niendorf will be added to this thread before long....
 
TeaLovingDave said:
One wonders how many species I shall shortly see at Walsrode and Vogelpark Niendorf will be added to this thread before long....
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I don't think it matters when, or how often, you visit Walsrode: you will always just miss something. That said, there's usually some choice new arrivals to compensate!

I'll be very interested to hear how Niendorf is doing these days as it's almost a decade since my one and only visit.
 
robmv said:
I don't think it matters when, or how often, you visit Walsrode: you will always just miss something. That said, there's usually some choice new arrivals to compensate!

I'll be very interested to hear how Niendorf is doing these days as it's almost a decade since my one and only visit.
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Very true; my point is more that as there are quite a lot of species which are down to single elderly individuals in Europe at those two collections, and which I am likely to either just miss or see in the nick of time, it is probable that I'll be posting photos from my trip into this thread for *something* or other - the main such taxa being the Dwarf Cassowary, Misool Brush-turkey, Wood stork and African Woolly-necked Stork.
 
I have read through this very interesting thread. The question is why do these species die out? Clearly some were in such small numbers that it was unlikely they could ever become established. However why is it that others such as Gough Moorhen become established and then die out.

Understanding what drives some species to become established, while others flounder would be very valuable so we could help secure species in captivity.
 
Carl Jones said:
I have read through this very interesting thread. The question is why do these species die out? Clearly some were in such small numbers that it was unlikely they could ever become established. However why is it that others such as Gough Moorhen become established and then die out.

Understanding what drives some species to become established, while others flounder would be very valuable so we could help secure species in captivity.
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Species can die-out due to many different reasons. Apart from small population size as you said, they can die-out due to inbreeding, diseases, hybridization, sudden loss of breeding success, and loss of interest by collections. Unfortunately, I feel the later of those is most often the case. Occasionally, like with the Mauritius Kestrel, the captive population is almost entirely reintroduced into the wild and then dies out.

~Thylo:cool:
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Apart from small population size as you said, they can die-out due to inbreeding, diseases, hybridization, sudden loss of breeding success, and loss of interest by collections.
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The latter of these is certainly one of the most infuriating and disheartening causes for a taxon disappearing from captivity.... quite often, this fate befalls small mammals and birds which don't meet the Big Name status a lot of collections aspire towards.

Unfortunately for myself, these are the taxa I often like best!

ThylacineAlive said:
Occasionally, like with the Mauritius Kestrel, the captive population is almost entirely reintroduced into the wild and then dies out.
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A matter with which Carl is extremely familiar :p
 
TeaLovingDave said:
The latter of these is certainly one of the most infuriating and disheartening causes for a taxon disappearing from captivity.... quite often, this fate befalls small mammals and birds which don't meet the Big Name status a lot of collections aspire towards.

Unfortunately for myself, these are the taxa I often like best!
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Those are often the taxa most of us like the best...

TeaLovingDave said:
A matter with which Carl is extremely familiar :p
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Well then, that's a funny little coincidence now isn't it!:D

~Thylo:cool:
 
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