Réunion Night-Heron vs Rodrigues Night-Heron

Nycticorax duboisi เปรียบเทียบกับ Nycticorax megacephalus

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คุณสมบัติ Réunion Night-Heron Rodrigues Night-Heron
ชื่อวิทยาศาสตร์ Nycticorax duboisi Nycticorax megacephalus
อันดับ Pelecaniformes Pelecaniformes
วงศ์ตระกูล Ardeidae Ardeidae
สถานะการอนุรักษ์ Extinct Extinct
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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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