Nycticorax megacephalus

The Rodrigues Night Heron is an extinct species of heron formerly occurring on the Mascarene island of Rodrigues.

The Nycticorax megacephalus is classified as Extinct (EX), there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.

Summary Nycticorax megacephalus is known from a number of bones2, and from Leguat's 1708 and Tafforet's 1726 accounts1, from Rodrigues, Mauritius. In 1761, Pingr More

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