Rodrigues night heron

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Rodrigues night heron (plural Rodrigues night herons)

  1. An extinct species of heron, Nycticorax megacephalus, that lived on Rodrigues in the Mascarene Islands.
    • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 74:
      The Rodrigues night heron was an early casualty from the Mascarenes and is particularly interesting for a heron in that it was probably flightless.
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