South Island Adzebill
Aptornis defossor
The adzebills, genus Aptornis, were two closely related bird species, the North Island adzebill (Aptornis otidiformis), and the South Island adzebill (Aptornis defossor), of the extinct family Aptornithidae. The family was endemic to New Zealand. A tentative fossil species (Aptornis proasciarostratus) is known from the Miocene Saint Bathans fauna.
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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 543271.