The Lord Howe gerygone or Lord Howe gerygone flyeater was a small bird in the family Acanthizidae, brown and greyish in color. Its head was brown apart from a pale grey eye-ring and a grey throat and chin, many parts of the animal varied to the colour of yellow, this being apparent in its bright yellow belly. It made its home in the canopies of the island's forest until the early 20th century. The bird has had a variety of monikers: locally, it was known as the "rain-bird" due to its activity after the rains, or the "pop-goes-the-weasel", due to the similarity of its song to the well-known tune. The bird was endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. There have been no records of the species since 1928, and it is considered to be extinct. Its extinction is almost certainly due to predation by black rats which were accidentally introduced to the island in 1918 following the shipwreck of the SS Makambo there. Source: Wikipedia
Citation:
Ramsay, EP 1878
Reference:
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales
3 p.117
Protonym:
Gerygone insularius
Type locality:
Lord Howe Island.
Link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6456557
Avibase ID:
D7A9700782421A34
Avibase ID:
avibase-D7A97007
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/D7A97007
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 560259
Geographic range:
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 00: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 01: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
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Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Christidis and Boles (2008): Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) |
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993): Gérygone de Lord Howe ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Clements, version 2021: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
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Clements, version 2024: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Clements 4th edition: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
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Clements 6th edition (version 6.6 incl. 2011 revisions): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
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Clements, version 2019: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
eBird version 1.50: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
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Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
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Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
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IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Morony, Bock and Farrand: Lord Howe Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Gerygone insularis [version 1] |
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Gerygone insularis [version 1] |
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Gerygone insularis [version 1] |
Sibley and Monroe (1993): Lord Howe Island Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998): Lord Howe Island Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0: Lord Howe Island Gerygone ( Gerygone insularis) [version 1] |
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Gerygone igata insularis [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: full species (sometimes a subspecies)
This taxon is considered a subspecies of
Gerygone [igata or insularis]
(sensu lato) by some authors
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