Norfolk Kaka
Slender-billed Nestor ( Nestor productus ) Illustration by Elizabeth Gould, from The Birds of Australia, Volume 5 of 1848
The Slender-billed Nestor or Norfolk Kaka ( Nestor productus ) was a parrot ( family Strigopidae ) of the genus Nestor parrots ( Nestor ). He lived until shortly after European settlement, the Norfolk Islands, north of New Zealand.
Features
The type was about 40 cm long. In plumage outweighed yellow, orange and brown hues. The little information that we have about the behavior of Nestorpapageiens, submitted by John Gould. He had the opportunity to see a bird kept in captivity in Sydney. According to his information, the Slender-billed Nestor moved hopping and jumping forward on the ground. This is consistent with the movement of ways that one knows when Kaka and Kea, the two surviving members of the genus Nestor.
Shortly after the colonization of the islands, it must have come to a rapid decline. In 1851, the last animal died as a cage bird in London. In the wild, the species was already gone before.
Bellows and mounted specimens of the extinct Slender-billed Nestor found be seen in a number of science museums around Dresden, Kiel, Halberstadt, Göppingen, Frankfurt, Florence, Leiden, Liverpool, London, Melbourne, New York, Philadelphia, Prague, Vienna and Washington.