Pitcairn Reed Warbler

The perching bird

Pitcairn Reed Warbler is a perching bird in the family Acrocephalidae (order Passeriformes) — Acrocephalus vaughani.

Range and habitat

The warbler is endemic to Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific Ocean. It is a generalist species and is widespread on the island, especially in stands of introduced rose apple trees and scrubland in gardens. It is endemic to Pitcairn Island in the southern Pacific.

Locally known as the "sparrow" (true sparrows are not found on Pitcairn), it used to be common throughout the island, where it is the only land bird.

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

Consequently, it was uplisted to endangered status in 2008.

Pitcairn Reed Warbler 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 Pitcairn Reed Warbler, Wikidata item Q781976. 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.