slender-billed greenfinch

English

(B) fossilized skull of a slender-billed greenfinch

Noun

slender-billed greenfinch (plural slender-billed greenfinches)

1. Chloris aurelioi, an extinct species of finch closely related to the European greenfinch (Chloris chloris), known only from fossil remains in Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
   • 2018 May 15, John Bowler, Wildlife of Madeira and the Canary Islands: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 18:

     Analysis of bones discovered in caves on the islands has revealed the former presence of additional endemic species  […] These include the Long-legged Bunting and Slender-billed Greenfinch of Tenerife, both of which were essentially flightless and therefore easy prey for introduced predators.

Translations

Chloris aurelioi

References

• slender-billed greenfinch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chloris aurelioi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chloris aurelioi on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons