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The New Zealand bittern (Botaurus novaezelandiae) is an extinct and enigmatic species of heron in the family Ardeidae. It was endemic to New Zealand and was last recorded alive in the 1890s. [2] Common names for this species include New Zealand little bittern, spotted heron, and kaoriki . [3]
Bitterns, like herons, egrets, and pelicans, fly with their necks retracted, unlike the cranes, storks, ibises and spoonbills, and geese which fly with necks extended and outstretched. The genus Ixobrychus was recently found to be paraphyletic with the Botaurus genus, and Ixobrychus was then merged into Botaurus .
The butterflies of New Zealand include twelve endemic species, as well as several introduced and migrant species. Lepidoptera , which includes the butterflies and moths , is the third largest insect order in New Zealand.
The bittern has sometimes been regarded as a subspecies of the little bittern (Botaurus minutus), or of the New Zealand bittern (Botaurus novaezelandiae).However, molecular evidence has shown it to be more closely related to the yellow bittern (Botaurus sinensis) than to the African and Palaearctic forms of the little bittern, and it is now recognised as a full species.
Australasian bittern: Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Ouvea Botaurus lentiginosus: American bittern: the U.S. Gulf Coast states, all of Florida into the Everglades, the Caribbean islands and parts of Central America Botaurus pinnatus: Pinnated bittern or South American bittern
This is a list of birds of the Chatham Islands, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 650 kilometres (400 mi) east of mainland New Zealand.In 1995, Chatham Islands County was dissolved and reconstituted by a New Zealand act of Parliament as the "Chatham Islands Territory", with powers similar to those of territorial authorities and some functions similar to those of a regional council. [1]
Little bittern; N. New Zealand bittern; P. Pinnated bittern; V. Von Schrenck's bittern; Y. Yellow bittern This page was last edited on 1 April 2018, at 17:43 ...
Pikaihao bartlei, also referred to as Bartle's bittern or the Saint Bathans bittern, is a genus and species of prehistoric small bittern from the Early Miocene of New Zealand. . It was described in 2013 from fossil material (a left tarsometatarsus and a cranial part left coracoid) found in the Saint Bathans Fauna of the Bannockburn Formation, at Home Hills Station in the Manuherikia River ...