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 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Nestor productus
Norfolk Island Kaka Nestor productus inhabited rocks and treetops on Norfolk Island (to Australia) and adjacent Phillip Island.
It was reportedly tame, and hence heavily hunted for food by convicts and early settlers and easily trapped as a pet, leading to its extinction in the wild in the early 19th century.
Nestor productus inhabited rocks and treetops on Norfolk Island (to Australia) and adjacent Phillip Island
www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/14730/all   (363 words)

  
 Naturalis - Extinct bird: Nestor productus (Norfolk Island Kaka)
The last Norfolk Island Kaka is said to have died in a cage in London in 1851.
The Norfolk Island Kaka is a close relative of the New Zealand Kaka, Nestor meridionalis.
Assuming that the date is correct, it would confirm that the Norfolk Island Kaka survived on Philip Island several years after it had vanished from Norfolk itself.
ip30.eti.uva.nl /naturalis/detail?lang=uk&id=51   (295 words)

  
 The AvianWeb: All About Birds
Nestor Parrots aka Kaka aka New Zealand Kaka:
French: Kaka, Nestor Méridional, Nestor brunâtre du Sud
French: Nestor à bec gracile, Nestor d'ile Norfolk
www.avianweb.com /nestorinae.htm   (213 words)

  
 Norfolk Island Kaka (Nestor productus) - BirdLife species factsheet
Norfolk Island Kaka (Nestor productus) - BirdLife species factsheet
Summary Nestor productus inhabited rocks and treetops on Norfolk Island (to Australia) and adjacent Phillip Island
Recommended citation BirdLife International (2006) Species factsheet: Nestor productus.
www.birdlife.org /datazone/species?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1411&m=0   (255 words)

  
 Kaka - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
The Kaka (Nestor meridionalis) is a parrot native to the forests of New Zealand.
This page was last modified 07:58, 25 Nov 2004 by Indopedia user User:.
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www.indopedia.org /Kaka.html   (315 words)

  
 On the General Geographical Distribution of the Members of the Class Aves, by Philip Lutley Sclater
But, in fact, we know that there are many species, genera, and even families of this class, particularly amongst the Passeres, whose distribution is extremely local.
The Nestor productus, confined to the little island called Philip Island; the several genera of Finches peculiar to the archipelago of the Galapagos; the gorgeous family Paradiseidæ, restricted to the Papuan territory, are familiar examples of this fact.
Again, the migratory birds which traverse large districts of the earth's surface, how constant are they in returning only where they have been in former years!
www.wku.edu /~smithch/biogeog/SCLA1858.htm   (3687 words)

  
 ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE
He also has added many notes from his own observations, primarily from field and aviary.
With the inclusion of the Red-fronted Parrot (Cyanorhamphus novaezelandiae) and the Kaka (Nestor productus), both from Norfolk Island, the splitting of the seven species of Platycercus of Peters (1937) into 10, and the lunaping of Peters' four species of Calyptorhynchus into three, the number of species included is 54.
These are arranged in a new classification that recognizes three parrot families, the Loriidae, Cacatuidae, and Psittacidae, with the Cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) placed in a separate sub- family within the Cacatuidae, and the Kaka placed in a separate subfamily of the Psit- tacidae.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Wilson/v083n01/p0107-p0112.html   (5593 words)

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