Banggai crow

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Banggai crow
C. unicolor in
Sulawesi Tengah
, Indonesia

Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Corvus
Species:
C. unicolor
Binomial name
Corvus unicolor
Synonyms

Corvus enca unicolor
Gazzola unicolor

The Banggai crow (Corvus unicolor) is a member of the

Peleng Island off the southeast coast of Sulawesi
by Indonesian ornithologist Mochamad Indrawan in 2007 and 2008.

It was sometimes considered a subspecies of the slender-billed crow, but it is actually rather distinct from this bird, resembling an entirely black piping crow overall. The Banggai crow is a small crow, some 39 cm (15 in) long and completely black with a pale iris and a short tail.[2]

For more than a century, it was known from only two

ornithologist Mochamad Indrawan caught and photographed two individuals.[4] The validity of the crows on Peleng was not recognized by BirdLife International in its 2009 Red List. Confirmation of the identity based on two specimens from Peleng was made by Pamela C. Rasmussen
of the American Museum of Natural History in October 2009.

The total population is estimated at approximately 500 mature individuals, living in mountain forest at altitudes above 500 m (1,600 ft).

extraction
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This bird remained a complete enigma for a long time. Listed as Vulnerable in the 1994 IUCN Red List, it was changed to Endangered in 2000. In 2006, the status was considered as Possibly Extinct. This proved to be incorrect and the status was corrected to Critically Endangered in the 2007 Red List.[5][1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ . Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  2. ^ Vaurie (1958), Madge & Burn (1994).
  3. ^ a b Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots
  4. ^ ZGAP Mitteilungen 23/2 (2008), pp. 13-14 (German)
  5. ^ See Collar et al. (2001), BirdLife International (2004, 2007a,b).

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