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Macquarie Island is a subantarctic island in the south-western Pacific Ocean, ... including the extinction of the Macquarie Island rail (Gallirallus macquariensis), ...
The Macquarie rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis macquariensis), also known as the Macquarie Island rail, is an extinct subspecies of the buff-banded rail endemic to Macquarie Island, a subantarctic island that is part of the state of Tasmania, Australia. [2] The holotype is in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. [3]
The Macquarie parakeet is considered to be a subspecies of the red-crowned parakeet C. novaezelandiae, which it resembled in appearance. [2] In the past is has been lumped with Reischek's parakeet from the Antipodes Islands in a 2001 paper by Wee Ming Boon and others following an examination of the molecular systematics of the genus which found that many of the red-crowned parakeet subspecies ...
Macquarie Island, Tasmania Last seen in 1890. Probably driven to extinction by introduced weka and rabbits. [10] Paradise parrot: Psephotellus pulcherrimus: Southeastern Queensland and possibly New South Wales Last confirmed observation in 1927 or 1928; it was considered extinct after a drought in 1902 but was rediscovered in 1918.
The two species from the Society Islands, the black-fronted parakeet and the Society parakeet, are now extinct, as are the taxa from Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island, and an undescribed Campbell Island form. One species, Malherbe's parakeet (C. malherbi), is critically endangered, while most other species are endangered or vulnerable.
Macquarie Island Banded Rail [1] Rodrigues Ring-necked Parakeet [1] 1881 Jamaican Wood Rail [1] Seychelles Parakeet [1] 1884 Sandwich Rail [1] 1887 Ryukyu Kingfisher [1] 1890 Comoro Scops Owl [1] Macquarie Island Parakeet [1] Oahu Nukupu'u (subsp.), [1] Tristan Gallinule, [1] a moorhen; 1891 Lesser Koa-finch [1] 1892 Guadalupe (Berwick's) Wren ...
The Macquarie Island Station, commonly called Macca, [2] is a permanent Australian subantarctic research base on Macquarie Island, situated in the Southern Ocean and located approximately halfway between Mainland Australia and Antarctica, managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).
The royal penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) is a species of penguin, which can be found only on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and adjacent islands. [2] The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the royal penguin as Least Concern. [1] The scientific name commemorates the German zoologist Hermann Schlegel.