Réunion Night-Heron vs Rodrigues Night-Heron

Nycticorax duboisi مقارنةً بـ Nycticorax megacephalus

Side-by-Side Comparison

السمة Réunion Night-Heron Rodrigues Night-Heron
الاسم العلمي Nycticorax duboisi Nycticorax megacephalus
الرتبة Pelecaniformes Pelecaniformes
الفصيلة Ardeidae Ardeidae
حالة الحفاظ Extinct Extinct
الطول
طول الجناح
الوزن
النظام الغذائي -- --
عدد البيض في الوضع -- --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

الموائل المشتركة

Réunion Night-Heron only

بلا

Rodrigues Night-Heron only

بلا

حالة الحفاظ

Extinct

Réunion Night-Heron

Extinct

Rodrigues Night-Heron

About These Birds

Réunion Night-Heron

The Réunion Night-Heron (Nycticorax duboisi) is an extinct species of night-heron belonging to the family Ardeidae, formerly endemic to the island of Réunion in the southwestern Indian Ocean. The species is known only from a brief historical description by the early European traveler Dubois, who visited Réunion in 1671–1672 and described a large, gray-colored bird with a white belly that was hunted and eaten by settlers. No specimens are known to exist in museum collections, and no skeletal remains have …

Rodrigues Night-Heron

The Rodrigues Night-Heron (Nycticorax megacephalus) is an extinct species of night-heron belonging to the family Ardeidae, formerly endemic to the island of Rodrigues in the Mascarene island group in the southwestern Indian Ocean. The species is known from subfossil and fossil bones, supplemented by historical accounts by French colonists and castaways who visited or were stranded on Rodrigues in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The scientific name megacephalus means 'large-headed' in Greek, a morphological feature noted in the skeletal …

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