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Chatham Islands Fernbird
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Chatham Islands Fernbird
Poodytes rufescens
The Chatham fernbird (Poodytes rufescens) is an extinct bird species endemic to Pitt Island and Mangere Island (which belong to the Chatham Islands). Its next living relatives are the Snares fernbird (P. punctatus caudatus) and the New Zealand fernbird or Matata (Poodytes punctatus). Some scientists considered it as subspecies of the Matata and named it Poodytes punctatus rufescens but most others regarded it as full species. While some scientists classified it in its own genus Bowdleria....
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1137646.