Thin-beaked nest

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Thin-beaked nest
Thin-billed nest (Nestor productus) Illustration by Elizabeth Gould, from The Birds of Australia, Volume 5, 1848

Thin-billed nest ( Nestor productus )
Illustration by Elizabeth Gould , from The Birds of Australia ,
Volume 5, 1848

Systematics
Order : Parrots (Psittaciformes)
Family : Strigopidae
Tribe : Nestorini
Genre : Nestor Parrots ( Nestor )
Type : Thin-beaked nest
Scientific name
Nestor productus
( Gould , 1836)
Dermoplasty in the Natural History Museum of Florence

The thin -beaked nest or Norfolk kaka ( Nestor productus ) was a parrot ( family Strigopidae) from the genus of the Nestor parrots ( Nestor ). He lived in the Norfolk Islands north of New Zealand until shortly after the European colonization .

features

The species was about 40 cm long. Yellow, orange and brown tones predominated in the plumage. The little information we have about Nestor parrot behavior comes from John Gould . He had the opportunity in Sydney to see a human kept bird. According to his information, the thin-billed nest was jumping and hopping forward on the ground. This agrees with the mode of movement known from Kaka and Kea, the two surviving members of the Nestor genus.

There must have been a rapid decline shortly after the islands were settled. In 1851 the last animal died as a cage bird in London. The species had disappeared earlier in the wild.

Bellows and dermoplastics of the extinct thin-beaked nest can be found in a number of natural science museums, for example in Dresden, Kiel, Halberstadt, Göttingen, Frankfurt a. M., Florence, Leiden, Liverpool, Tring, Melbourne, New York, Philadelphia, Prague, Vienna and Washington.

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forshaw, p. 312

literature

  • Joseph M. Forshaw : Australian Parrots. 1st German-language edition. Volume 2, Arndt-Verlag, Bretten 2003, ISBN 3-9808245-2-7 .
  • Detlev Franz: History of the discovery and German preparations of the extinct thin-beaked nest. In: Parrots. 11, 2014, pp. 379-383.

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