Black-fronted Parakeet (Cyanoramphus zealandicus)
Posted on 31 December, 1844 in Extinct • Tagged with French Polynesia (Tahiti), family-PSITTACIDAE, extinct-1840s
Year Last Seen:
1844
Comments:
This species was known from Tahiti, French Polynesia, but it has not been recorded since 1844 and is now Extinct. Possible causes include deforestation, hunting and predation by introduced species.
Habitat:
Like Raiatea Parakeet C. uleitanus, the species was presumably a forest bird (Forshaw and …
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