high-billed crow
{{Short description|Extinct species of bird}}
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| fossil_range = Holocene
| name = High-billed crow
| extinct = yes
| image = Corvus impluviatus andor Corvus viriosus.jpg
| image_caption = These fossils represent one or two of the slender-billed crow (Corvus viriosus) and the deep-billed crow (C. impluviatus)
| genus = Corvus
| species = impluviatus
| authority = Olson & James, 1991
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| range_map_caption =
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File:Corvus impluviatus restoration.jpg]]
The high-billed crow or deep-billed crow (Corvus impluviatus) was a species of large, raven-sized crow that was endemic to the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. It was pushed to extinction due to the arrival of people and pests like rats.
References
- {{cite journal |last=Olson |first=Storrs L. |author2=James, Helen F. |year=1991 |title=Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II |journal=Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs |volume=46 |pages=1–88 |hdl=10088/1746}}
- {{cite journal |last=Milberg |first=Per |author2=Tyrberg, Tommy |year=1993 |title=Naïve birds and noble savages. A review of man-caused prehistoric extinctions of island birds |journal=Ecography |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=229–250 |doi=10.1111/j.1600-0587.1993.tb00213.x |bibcode=1993Ecogr..16..229M }}
- {{cite news |first=Jan |last=TenBruggencate |title=Oahu sinkholes yield extinct birds |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Aug/07/ln/hawaii708070352.html |work=The Honolulu Advertiser |date=2007-08-07 }}
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Category:Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
Category:Extinct birds of Hawaii
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