Endangered
Mauritius Fody
Foudia rubra
Mauritius Fody is a perching bird in the family Ploceidae (order Passeriformes) — Foudia rubra, recorded as Endangered and tied to Mauritius.
Appearance
Breeding males are olive brown with a red head, breast and rump patch and black lores. Females, non-breeding males and juveniles are olive brown with white wing bars and a brown bill.
Range and habitat
The bird lives in several types of forest, among them degraded areas, as well as plantations. Stands of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) have replaced native vegetation and now provide protection against predators. It is endemic to the island of Mauritius.
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
It is classified by BirdLife International as being endangered. It is also on the United States' Endangered Species List with an endangered status.
Mauritius Fody is 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 Mauritius Fody, Wikidata item Q967513. 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.
