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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2005 18:31:53 GMT
Hi ! Aphanapteryx bonasia, I dont know if a thread about this bird exists: Bye Alex
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Post by sebbe67 on Nov 1, 2005 18:38:40 GMT
Red Rail Aphanapteryx bonasia was endemic to Mauritius from where it is known from a number of travelers' accounts and illustrations, and from numerous bones. It was mentioned to have become rare by Leguat in 1693, and there were no further reports, so the species, which was flightless and palatable, was presumably hunted to extinction around 1700. Taxonomy Kuina mundyi and Pezocrex herberti are synonyms.
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Post by sebbe67 on Nov 1, 2005 18:39:07 GMT
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Post by sebbe67 on Nov 1, 2005 18:39:31 GMT
Red Rail Aphanapteryx bonasia was endemic to Mauritius from where it is known from a number of travelers' accounts and illustrations, and from numerous bones.
It was mentioned to have become rare by Leguat in 1693, and there were no further reports, so the species, which was flightless and palatable, was presumably hunted to extinction around 1700.
Taxonomy Kuina mundyi and Pezocrex herberti are synonyms.
Also called ‘the red rail with a woodcock beak’. This bird lived exclusively in Mauritius and was a contemporary to the Dodo. It disappeared at the end of the XVIIth century, around 1675, probably for the same reasons as the Dodo, i.e having been decimated not only by human beings but mainly by the newly introduced predators (rats, dogs, pigs) brought by the Dutch on the island.
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Post by Melanie on Nov 2, 2005 0:25:20 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Nov 2, 2005 0:31:14 GMT
Warning: Free internet translation from fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poule_RougeAlso called Mauritius rail, the red hen or red hen with nozzle of woodcock (Aphanapteryx bonasia) is a bird of the family of gruiforme rallidés formerly endemic of Mauritius and now disappeared. Its existence is attested by a certain number of accounts and illustrations of travellers and by many bones. François Leguat announces since 1693 that it became rare. As there were not any more mentions with the bird in the voyage literature thereafter, it is estimated that hunting made disappear this species unable to fly and whose flesh was pleasant with the palate about 1700. The red hen is reproduced on a stamp emitted by the Mauritian Post office of a value of five rupees.
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Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 15:28:37 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 15:32:24 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 15:32:52 GMT
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Post by Carlos on Jun 14, 2006 16:50:59 GMT
In Fuller (2002) Extinct Birds (Foreword - HBW7) Mauritian Red Rail Aphanapteryx bonasiaApterornis bonasia Sélys Longchamps, 1848 Rev. Zool.: 292.Scattered among the seventeenth century written accounts and illustrations that relate to the celebrated Dodo are descriptions and pictures of a flightless bird of rather different kind. These pictures show a creature that in overall shape and appearance looks something like a kiwi. A long, down-curved beak, rather hair-like plumage and stout legs all add to this impression. The bird in question bore no genuine relationship to the kiwis, however. It was a rail and, like the Dodo, it came from the island of Mauritius. Like its more famous fellow, the Mauritian Red Rail or Red Hen failed to survive the coming of Europeans by more than a few decades.The Dutch arrived on Mauritius, with devastating effect, during 1598, and it is highly doubtful if there were any red "hens" left a century later. Peter Mundy, and English traveller who penned fascinating reminiscences of his exploits, described the species as: A Mauritius henne, a Fowle as bigge as our English hennes...of which we got only one. It hath a long, Crooked sharpe pointed bill. Feathered all over, butte on their wings they are soe Few and smalle that they cannot with them raise themselves From the ground...They bee very good Meat, and are also Cloven footed, soe that they can Neyther Fly nor Swymme. Mundy was recalling events of 1638 and the fact that he and his companions got only a single individual surely indicates that the species was already rare. Earlier accounts suggest that the birds gathered in flocks and were fatally attracted to the colour red. By means of a piece of red material they could be induced to approach and then, of course, they were caught.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2006 17:06:32 GMT
Hi !
A suggestion ... as in the 'Atlantisia-Rails' also the two species of the genus Apanapteryx must be seperated into two genera.
But which of the both will become a new name ? And what name ?
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Post by dysmorodrepanis on Nov 20, 2006 4:28:54 GMT
Aphanapteryx Frauenfeld, 1868 Aphanapteryx bonasia (Selys, 1848) Erythromachus leguati Milne-Edwards, 1873
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2006 8:36:21 GMT
Oh, yes. Thank You !
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Post by another specialist on Jun 4, 2007 7:11:06 GMT
Fig.5 (right). Van den Broecke’s red rail Aphanapteryx bonasia (Julian Hume) Rails are generally small secretive birds with long necks, legs and bills. They frequently arrive on isolated oceanic islands and often become flightless. Mauritius was home to a number of species with the red rail being the most spectacular. This species was described from fossil material collected at the Mare aux Songes but it is also known from one contemporary illustration. The early visitors to Mauritius easily caught this species by waving a piece of red cloth in one hand, which attracted the birds, and grabbing them with the other. Despite this persecution, the rails were considered reasonably common until the end of the 17th century, but after the introduction of cats in the 1780s, they were quickly eliminated. They were never mentioned again after 1700. www.naturalis.nl/asp/page.asp?alias=naturalis.nl&view=naturalis.nl&id=i000256&frameurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natura lis.nl%2Fget%3Fsite%3Dnaturalis.nl%26view%3Dnaturalis.nl%26id%3Di001200%26logId%3Dl000024%26execute%3Dshowsingleitem tinyurl.com/396oxo
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Post by another specialist on Aug 31, 2007 19:29:02 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jan 5, 2008 0:03:56 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Mar 22, 2008 22:22:19 GMT
Hi ! Aphanapteryx bonasia, I dont know if a thread about this bird exists: Bye Alex www.flickr.com/
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Post by another specialist on Apr 5, 2008 21:36:12 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 12, 2008 5:48:25 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 20, 2008 19:56:21 GMT
Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction (1907)
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