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New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar

Aegotheles savesi

FAMILY

Owlet-nightjars (Aegothelidae)

LAST DOCUMENTED

1913

(111 years)

REGION

Oceania

IUCN STATUS

Critically Endangered

Last Documented

Known with certainty from only two specimens on Grande Terre, New Caledonia: one collected in 1880 and the other from 1913 (Ekstrom et al. 2002).

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