Species profile
South Island Kokako
Callaeas cinereus
Quick answer
Glaucopis cinerea J. F. Gmelin, 1788 MZUT AV 3585; previously mounted; unsexed; New Zealand, no date; purchased by A. Caffer in Rio de Janeiro in 1839. MZUT AV 16330; previously mounted; unsexed; New Zealand, 1843. Remarks. — Hume & Walters (2012) treated this species as extinct. In 1839 – 40 Antonio Caffer, assistant to the Royal Zoological Museum of Torino, embarked on the frigate Regina for a journey around the globe. A storm near the Falkland Islands seriously damaged the ship, which was forced to return first to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Caffer purchased about 2,400 zoological specimens, and then to Genova (Mottin & Casolino 1999).
- Scientific name
- Callaeas cinereus
- Family
- Callaeatidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Callaeas
- Conservation status
- Critically Endangered
Recording South Island Kokako in your journal
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