Reunion Night Heron
Nycticorax duboisi(Rothschild, LW, 1907)
English (US) Reunion Night Heron
The Reunion Night Heron (Nycticorax duboisi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Ardeidae (Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns) in the order Pelecaniformes.
Range: formerly Réunion; extinct, last reported in 1674Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Nycticorax duboisi
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct
- English (US)
- Reunion Night Heron
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1907)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ardea duboisi
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1907)
- Original description
- Extinct birds. An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times - that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction p.114
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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