Data Zone
Justification of Red List category
This species was known from Tahiti, French Polynesia, but it has not been recorded since 1844 and is now Extinct. Possible causes include deforestation, hunting and predation by introduced species.
Population justification
None remain.
Cyanoramphus zealandicus is known from Tahiti, French Polynesia, from three specimens (two of which are now in Liverpool and one in Tring, U. K.) collected on James Cook's voyage in 1773, a fourth collected by G. Amadis in 1842, now in Perpignan (France) and a fifth collected by M. J. de Marolles in 1844, now in Paris (France) (Voisin et al. 1995).
Like Raiatea Parakeet C. uleitanus, the species was presumably a forest bird (Forshaw and Cooper 1989).
Its demise could have resulted from habitat loss, hunting or predation by introduced species (Forshaw and Cooper 1989, Hume 2017).
Text account compilers
Vine, J.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Black-fronted Parakeet Cyanoramphus zealandicus. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/black-fronted-parakeet-cyanoramphus-zealandicus on 23/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.