High-billed crow

High-billed crow
Temporal range: Holocene
These fossils represent one or two of the slender-billed crow (Corvus viriosus) and the deep-billed crow (C. impluviatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Corvus
Species:
†C. impluviatus
Binomial name
†Corvus impluviatus
Olson & James, 1991
Life restoration

The high-billed crow or deep-billed crow (Corvus impluviatus) is an extinct species of large, raven-sized crow that was endemic to the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. It was pushed to extinction after the arrival of humans, who brought with them pests like rats.

References

  • Olson, Storrs L.; James, Helen F. (1991). "Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II". Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs. 46: 1–88. hdl:10088/1746.
  • Milberg, Per; Tyrberg, Tommy (1993). "Naïve birds and noble savages. A review of man-caused prehistoric extinctions of island birds". Ecography. 16 (3): 229–250. Bibcode:1993Ecogr..16..229M. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.1993.tb00213.x.
  • TenBruggencate, Jan (2007-08-07). "Oahu sinkholes yield extinct birds". The Honolulu Advertiser.


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