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Post by sebbe67 on May 16, 2005 17:00:30 GMT
Anas marecula
Amsterdam Island Duck Anas marecula was endemic to Amsterdam Island, French Southern Territories. It is only known from bones "no more than a few hundred years old". It was flightless, and presumably driven to extinction by whalers stopping off on the island. A report of "a small brown duck, not much larger than a thrush" from Barrow's 1793 visit to the neighbouring St Paul Island presumably refers to the same or a similar species.
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 4:46:48 GMT
Anas marecula
Olson & Jouventin 1996
Holocene of Amsterdam Island, sc Indian Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: complete rostrum
Secondary materials: Paratypes: mandibula, sterna caracoïdea, furcula, wing and leg bones
Storrs L. Olson & Pierre Jouventin,
A new species of small flightless duck from Amsterdam Island, southern Indian Ocean (Anatidae: Anas)
The Condor 98 (1996): 1-9
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Post by another specialist on Jun 8, 2005 7:28:57 GMT
Anas marecula Amsterdam Island Duck Anas marecula was endemic to Amsterdam Island, French Southern Territories. It is only known from bones "no more than a few hundred years old". It was flightless, and presumably driven to extinction by whalers stopping off on the island. A report of "a small brown duck, not much larger than a thrush" from Barrow's 1793 visit to the neighbouring St Paul Island presumably refers to the same or a similar species. source of info www.birdlife.net/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=30073&m=0 |
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Post by another specialist on Jun 11, 2005 4:23:53 GMT
Amsterdam Island Wigeon† Anas marecula
Amsterdam Island, Indian Ocean
insert after: Anas sibilatrix
Storrs L. Olson & Pierre Jouventin,
A new species of small flightless duck from Amsterdam Island, southern Indian Ocean (Anatidae: Anas)
Condor 98 (1996): 1-9
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Post by dysmorodrepanis on Jun 23, 2005 13:44:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2005 15:05:07 GMT
Hi !
Has someone of You ever heard of a rail from Amsterdam Island ? It was found as a mummy and felt to dust when it was removed. It was fotographed and measurements were also taken. But unfortunately I forgot how large it was.
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Post by Melanie on Jun 23, 2005 15:55:57 GMT
I've found this reference: Among numerous bones of seabirds collected on Amsterdam Island in 1955-1956, Jouanin
and Paulian (1960) identified remains of a mummified
rail that crumbled to dust, and two tarsometatarsi and an incomplete cranium of a very small duck supposedly about the size of a Garganey (Anas querquedula) Martinez (1987) collected thousands of bones of birds from various cavities and shelters in basaltic rocks on Amsterdam Island, most of which were of seabirds. Although no further remains
of rails were encountered, bones of a very small duck were relatively common and were found in seven sites ranging from sea level to 500 m throughout most of the island’s biotopes. from elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v098n01/p0001-p0009.pdf |
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Post by dysmorodrepanis on Jun 23, 2005 17:58:11 GMT
Hi ! Has someone of You ever heard of a rail from Amsterdam Island ? It was found as a mummy and felt to dust when it was removed. It was fotographed and measurements were also taken. But unfortunately I forgot how large it was. Yes, it was referred to in Jouanin's paper at some ornithological congress and mentioned in Ripley's Rails of the World. It was similar to a corncrake (Crex crex), but with rails on oceanic islands, that means not much. There have been no more indications of former presence of Rallidae on Amsterdam Island, however. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2005 19:29:54 GMT
Hi !
Well, it is only that paper from which I know of this rail. I tried to draw it, but ... the pic looked to much like Crex crex at all.
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Post by another specialist on Jul 22, 2005 7:29:07 GMT
Interesting to known about the Amsterdam island rail. Has this been mentioned in the correct category with the other rails where this entrys belong not really here with AMSTERDAM ISLAND DUCK with waterfowl?
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Post by Prolagus on Jul 26, 2005 21:58:15 GMT
What is the causation for the extinction of the Little Amsterdam Island-Duck?
Was the hunting or the rats?
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Post by dysmorodrepanis on Jul 26, 2005 22:03:45 GMT
What is the causation for the extinction of the Little Amsterdam Island-Duck? Was the hunting or the rats? Good question. I'd guess rats, as there are other birds that could be hunted there (like the endemic albatros), so although this duck was hunted for food, hunting was probably the lesser of the two factors leading to its extinction. |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 27, 2005 8:15:32 GMT
I agree dysmorodrepanis
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Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 10:04:15 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 30, 2007 6:07:57 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 30, 2007 6:08:26 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 30, 2007 6:09:16 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Aug 26, 2007 16:16:45 GMT
This small, flightless duck has been described in 1996 from the Ile Amsterdam. Many bones of it were found all over the island. The Amsterdam Island Duck was living in the islands interior, it was not depended to water. Its diet were mainly invertebrates. In 1793 a man named Burrow saw small, brown ducks on New Amsterdam's neighboring Ile Saint Paul, this was perhaps another closely related species. In 1960 a small mumified rail were found on the Ile Amsterdam, but the specimen disintegrated into dust during extrication. www.extinct.minks-lang.de/7voegel/a.birdsarten.a-m/anas.marecula1.htm |
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Post by alexanderlang on Feb 28, 2020 13:55:48 GMT
A report of "a small brown duck, not much larger than a thrush" from Barrow's 1793 visit to the neighbouring St Paul Island presumably refers to the same or a similar species. This report doesn't refer to Saint Paul Island but to Amsterdam Island, in the actual account there is a enumeration of birds found on Amsterdam Island, the duck is mentioned for another time as a preferred food of three stranded whalers who lived on Amsterdam Island at that time! No bird at all is mentioned from saint Paul Island, and I think Barrow did not even land on that island at all. John Barrow: A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1806 |
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Post by redpinnipedgamer on Aug 10, 2024 0:53:16 GMT
Artwork I did of the species for a school project!  |
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