Cacatua sp. nov. 'New Caledonia'

New Caledonian cockatoo

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Distribution

Grand Terre, New Caledonia

Anatomy & Morphology

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

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)]

Steadman DW (1997) A re-examination of the bird bones excavated on New Caledonia by E. W. Gifford in 1952. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 82, 38–48.

Steadman, David W. (2006). Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. xiv + 594 pp.

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

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