Critically Endangered
St. Kitts Bullfinch
Melopyrrha grandis
Kitts bullfinch, known locally as the mountain blacksmith, is a possibly extinct songbird species of the genus Melopyrrha that was endemic to the island of Saint Kitts.
The perching bird
St. Kitts Bullfinch is a perching bird in the family Thraupidae (order Passeriformes) — Melopyrrha grandis.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Saint Kitts, where it has a highly restricted range. It may have previously had a wider range, inhabiting at least Nevis and Sint Eustatius, that were both connected to Saint Kitts during the Last Glacial Maximum, but no fossil specimens are known from there. It could have also inhabited Antigua and Barbuda, but no specimens are known from there either. Kitts bullfinch, known locally as the mountain blacksmith, is a possibly extinct songbird species of the genus Melopyrrha that was endemic to the island of Saint Kitts.
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
St. Kitts Bullfinch 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 St. Kitts Bullfinch, Wikidata item Q108084973. 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.
