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Female great auks would lay only one egg each year, between late May and early June, although they could lay a replacement egg if the first one was lost. [22]: 32 [47] In years when there was a shortage of food, the great auks did not breed. [48] A single egg was laid on bare ground up to 100 metres (330 ft) from shore.
From the late 14th century, the island became a possession of Clanranald, during which time a notorious massacre took place during a period of clan warfare. After more than four centuries in Clanranald's hands, the island was sold during the 19th century, and the new laird evicted many of his tenants en masse and replaced them with herds of sheep.
The Saint Helena earwig was first discovered by Danish entomologist Johan Christian Fabricius, who named it Labidura herculeana in 1798. It later became confused with the smaller and more familiar shore earwig Labidura riparia, was demoted to a subspecies of that species in 1904, and received little attention from science. [2]
Green sea turtles make a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) journey every 3–4 years from Brazil to Ascension Island to breed. They have been a protected species on the island since the mid-20th century, and lay their eggs on the pristine and quiet beaches of the island. The turtles which survive to adulthood will return to breed at the same beaches.
Ma'unga Terevaka is the largest, tallest (507.41 m (1,664.73 ft)) and youngest of three main extinct volcanoes that form Easter Island.Several smaller volcanic cones and craters dot its slopes, including a crater hosting one of the island's three lakes, Rano Aroi.
Lyall's wren or the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli) was a small, flightless passerine belonging to the family Acanthisittidae, the New Zealand wrens.Now extinct, it was once found throughout New Zealand, but when it came to the attention of scientists in 1894, its last refuge was Stephens Island in Cook Strait.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. Extinct order of birds This article is about the extinct New Zealand birds known as moa. For other uses, see Moa (disambiguation). Moa Temporal range: Miocene – Holocene, 17–0.0006 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N North Island giant moa skeleton Scientific classification Domain ...