Critically Endangered
São Tomé Fiscal
Lanius newtoni
São Tomé Fiscal is a perching bird in the family Laniidae (order Passeriformes) — Lanius newtoni, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The bird is black above with a white shoulder-scapular bar. The São Tomé fiscal has a pale yellow chin, breast, belly, flanks vent and under tail. Its graduated tail has all black central tail feathers and an increasing amount of white on outer web from inner to outer tail feathers.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Príncipe. The species lives on the island of São Tomé and is usually found under closed canopy. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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
The presence of introduced species, among them the Black rat, Mona monkey, African civet, and Feral cat, raises concerns regarding potential predators that may impact the São Tomé fiscal's survival in its environment.
São Tomé Fiscal 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 São Tomé Fiscal, Wikidata item Q1069044. 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.
