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Porphyrio sp. nov. 'Norfolk Island'

Norfolk Island swamphen

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

 

Distribution

Norfolk Island, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 119-187.

 Hume, J.P. (2017) Extinct Birds 2nd Edition

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

 

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