Family: Sturnidae (Starlings)

Authority: Gould, 1836

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species was formerly found on the Australian islands of Norfolk and Lord Howe, but it is now Extinct owing to Black Rat predation, habitat destruction and competition with introduced birds. The last record was of the nominate subspecies on Norfolk Island in 1923; it was certainly gone by the time the island was visited in 1968.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

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