The New Caledonian storm petrel (Fregetta lineata), based on numbers spotted at sea off Australia and New Caledonia, has a population of 100-1,000 pairs and is virtually certainly globally threatened. Storm petrels are a group of roughly 20 seabirds belonging to the Hydrobatidae family (sometimes known as Oceanitidae), which is part of the Procellariiformes order. […]
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13 newly-discovered birds declared extinct
In a recent update of the IUCN Red List, scientists have identified 13 new bird species that have gone extinct since 1500. In total the list now finds that at least 140 bird species gone extinct in the past five hundred years, representing 1.3 percent of the world’s total known birds. The new extinct birds […]
‘Lost’ bird rediscovered in New Caledonia along with 16 potentially new species
In early 2011, Conservation International (CI) dubbed the forests of New Caledonia the second-most imperiled in the world after those on mainland Southeast Asia. Today, CI has released the results of a biodiversity survey under the group’s Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) to New Caledonia’s tallest mountain, Mount Panié. During the survey researchers rediscovered the ‘lost’ […]