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It was an extinct
species of flightless rail
. It was endemic
to the Mascarene
island of Mauritius
, east of Madagascar
in the Indian Ocean. Its height was 50 sm.
In addition to hunting pressure by humans, the fact that the red rail nested on the ground made it vulnerable to pigs and other introduced animals, which ate their eggs and young, probably contributing to its extinction.
Feral cats, which are effective predators of ground-inhabiting birds, increased in numbers around the 1680s. (The red rail)
It was an extinct species of goose
from Reunion
. It was a close relative of the Egyptian goose
and was about the same size. There is only one description remaining, that of Dubois
made in 1674. He mentioned that they were similar to European geese, but smaller, with the bill and feet being red. Apart from that, the species is only known from brief reports and subfossil bones. (Reunion
sheldgoose)
It was a large extinct parrot
. It was endemic
to the Mascarene
island of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean
east of Madagascar
. It is unclear what other species
it is most closely related to, but it has been classified as a member of the tribe Psittaculini
, along with other Mascarene parrots.
Though Mauritius had previously been visited by Arab
vessels in the Middle Ages
and Portuguese ships between 1507 and 1513, they did not settle on the island.
The Dutch Empire acquired the island
and it was used from then on for the provisioning of trade vessels of the Dutch East India Company. (Broad-billed parrot)
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