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Haematopus meadewaldoi
12-22-2016

Haematopus meadewaldoi

Haematopus meadewaldoi NatureServe Explorer Species Reports — NatureServe Explorer is a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals and ecological communtities of the U.S and Canada. NatureServe Explorer provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too. NatureServe Explorer is a product of NatureServe in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network. This species was found in the eastern Canary Islands, but is now Extinct due to overharvesting of its invertebrate prey. It was last collected in 1913, and locally reported to be absent by the 1940s.

ITIS Reports — Haematopus meadewaldoi ITIS (the Integrated Taxonomic Information System) is a source for authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. The Canary Islands Oystercatcher, Canarian Oystercatcher, or Canarian black Oystercatcher,[notes 1] was a shorebird of uncertain taxonomy endemic to Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and their offshore islets in the Canary Islands, Spain. It is now considered to be extinct. The Canary Islands oystercatcher has had a complicated taxonomic history. Though this bird was long known to naturalist

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Detailed information
Full Name: Canarian Black oystercatcher (Haematopus meadewaldoi)
Where found: Wherever found
Critical Habitat:N/A
Species Group:Birds
Current listing status
Status Date Listed Lead Region Where Listed
Endangered 01/12/1995 Foreign (Headquarters) Wherever found
  • Countries in which the the Canarian Black oystercatcher, Wherever found is known to occur: Spain
Recovery
No recovery information is available for the Canarian Black oystercatcher.
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