Rodriguez Starling

Species-level: Testudophaga bicolor Hachisuka, 1937

The Rodriguez Starling is classified as Extinct (EX), there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.

Rodriguez Starling, is an extinct and quite enigmatic songbird species. It is the only valid species in genus Necropsar, and provisionally assigned to the starling family (Sturnidae). This bird used to inhabit Rodrigues in the Mascarenes and at least one of its offshore islets. The record of its erstwhile existence is limited to an old travel report and a few handfuls of subfossil bones. More

Rodriguez starling and Reunion starling, island endemics in the Mascarene Islands, may have disappeared in the eighteenth century. The Kosrae Mountain starling (Aplonis corvine), of Kosrae (Kusai) Island in the Caroline Islands, was first and last seen in 1828. The Norfolk Island starling (Aplonis fusca fusca) is believed to have disappeared in 1925, and its sister race, the Lord Howe Island starling (A. f. hulliana), was last seen in 1919. More