Mauritius night heron

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Mauritius night heron
Subfossil coracoid (6-7) and tarsometatarsus (8)

Extinct (c. 1690s?)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Nycticorax
Species:
†N. mauritianus
Binomial name
†Nycticorax mauritianus
(
Gadow
, 1893)
Location of Mauritius
Synonyms
  • Butorides mauritianus Newton & Gadow, 1893

The Mauritius night heron (Nycticorax mauritianus) is an extinct

Hans Gadow from the University of Cambridge. Newton and Gadow measured the tarsometatarsus with 81 to 87 mm.[2] It became presumedly extinct shortly after it was first mentioned by François Leguat
in 1693 who described them as a "great flight of bitterns".

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728777A94996372.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Greenway, James C. (1967): Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World
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