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Bush Wren

Educational resources on Bush Wren

Bush Wren or Xenicus longipes is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Extinct . IUCN Profile of the Bush Wren

Academic web links for the Bush Wren.


Extinction: North Island Bush Wren UWSP GEOG358 [Heywood]
North Island Bush Wren (Xenicus longipies stokesi) last observed ca. 1955 on North Island. arboreal island forest insectivore endemic to North Island, New Zealand
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/Geog358/extinctb/NIBuWren.htm

Extinction: Stead's Bush Wren UWSP GEOG358 [Heywood]
Stead's Bush Wren (Xenicus longipes variabilis) last observed ca. 1955 on Stewart Island. arboreal island forest insectivore endemic to Stewart Island, New Zealand
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/Geog358/extinctb/SteaWren.htm

Extinction: South Island Bush Wren UWSP GEOG358 [Heywood]
South Island Bush Wren (Xenicus longipes longipes) last observed ca. 1970 on South Island; POSSIBLY STILL EXISTS IN FJORDLAND. arboreal island forest insectivore endemic to
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctb/SIBuWren.htm

ADW: Xenicus longipes: Classification
Xenicus longipes (bush wren) ... taxon
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Xenicus_longipes.html

www.uwsp.edu
South Island Bush Wren: Xenicus longipes longipes: 1972: South Island, New Zealand: North Island Bush Wren: Xenicus longipes stokesi: 1949: North Island, New Zealand
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/Geog358/endangr/extinctb/ExtinctbL.htm

ADW: Xenicus: Classification
taxon ... Xenicus longipes (bush wren)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Xenicus.html

www.uwsp.edu
COMMON NAME: LATIN NAME: DATE: RANGE: FORM: SPECIMENS: PRIMARY CAUSE: SOURCE 1: SOURCE 2: SOURCE 3: SOURCE 4: SOURCE 5: SOURCE 6: SOURCE 7: Grey-headed Goshawk: Acciter princeps
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/Geog358/extinctb/ExtinctbL.htm

Birds of New Zealand:
Auckland Island Merganser: Last recorded 1902 . Recently Extinct Birds: www.terranature.org/wrenBush.jpg . Bush Wren: Last recorded on Stewart Island, 1972
www.plantbio.ohiou.edu/epb/ungrad/Birds2.ppt

Conservation
Japan 1841 New Zealand Bush Wren Xenicus longipes New Zealand 1972 Stephen Island Wren Xenicus lyalli New Zealand 1874 Kittlitz's Thrush Zoothera terrestris Bonin Is. Japan 1828 Grand Cayman
www.ioe.ucla.edu/CTR/staff/smith/ornithology/Week-10-Conservation.pdf

More recent extinctions:
New Zealand bush wren - thought to have been reduced to low numbers by the Polynesia rat, then extirpated by cats and black rats. - authors give an example of a subspecies living on
osf1.gmu.edu/~alaemmer/consbiol/extinctionsII.pdf







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