Critically Endangered
Crow Honeyeater
Gymnomyza aubryana
The crow honeyeater is a very large honeyeater endemic to humid forests in New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
Appearance
It superficially resembles a crow with its glossy black plumage and a curved beak. Their bill is long and bicolored – yellow below, black above.
The species measures 35 to 42.5 cm (13.8–16.7 in).
Range and habitat
The crow honeyeater is a very large honeyeater endemic to humid forests in New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
It is spread throughout the island, though mostly in the south.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
This bird is critically endangered due to introduced rats. It is estimated that there are between 50 and 249 birds left.
Crow Honeyeater is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Crow Honeyeater, Wikidata item Q847145. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
