Chatham Islands Fernbird (Poodytes rufescens)

Posted on 31 December, 1900 in Extinct • Tagged with New Zealand, family-LOCUSTELLIDAE, extinct-1900s

Year Last Seen:

1900

Comments:

This species was formerly found on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, but is thought to have gone Extinct around 1892 when the last specimen was collected. Habitat destruction and invasive species were probably the major causes.

Habitat:

It occupied low brushland.

Causes:

It presumably declined …


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