New Light on the Cahow, Pterodroma cahow

The murine rodents Rattus rattus, exulans and norvegicus as avian predators

“…- Murphy and Mowbray (1951) found no trace of Pterodroma cahow in localities where rats were present in Bermuda.…”

Breeding biology and population increase of the Endangered Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow

“…It was not until 1916 that the specimen was compared with subfossil remains and identified correctly (Nichols and Mowbray 1916). Further evidence that the species still existed came from freshly dead individuals found around Castle Harbour in June 1935 (Beebe 1935), June 1941and March 1945(Murphy and Mowbray 1951. Finally, in 1951, 13-14 pairs were discovered breeding in rock burrows on three small islets on the eastern fringe of Castle Harbour (Murphy and Mowbray 1951).…”

“…These new predators, together with extensive burning and deforestation during the first two decades of settlement, further reduced the remnant populations of Bermuda Petrel (Verrill 1902). By 1621 the Bermuda Petrel could no longer be located (Smith 1627) and for the next three centuries it was thought to be extinct (Verrill 1902, Murphy andMowbray 1951).…”

Addenda and corrigenda to type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History, Part 1 (by James C. Greenway, Jr. 1973. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150 (3): 207�346)

“…Now Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764). See Dwight, 1927: 243;Peters, 1931: 57;Hellmayr and Conover, 1948: 70;Murphy and Mowbray, 1951;Green way, 1973: 226;Jouanin and Mougin, 1979: 95;Checklist Committee, 2010: 118;and Dickinson and Remsen, 2013: 180. Holotype: AMNH 841245, unsexed, taken sitting on a single white egg in a crevice on Gurnet Head Rock, Bermuda, on 10 March 1905, by L.L. Mowbray.…”