Family: Sturnidae (Starlings)

Authority: Buller, 1887

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species, was known from Mauke, Cook Islands, but it is now Extinct presumably due to predation by introduced brown rats. The type specimen was taken in 1825, and the species was not found on the next ornithological visit to Mauke in 1975.

Population size: 0 mature individuals

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Terrestrial