Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Who's a Pretty Boy, Then?

There seems to be another (late) addition to the parrots of New Zealand with the discovery of the fossil remains of a very large bird Heracles inexpectus (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/07/fossils-largest-parrot-ever-recorded-found-new-zealand-heracles-inexpectatus). This parrot weighed about 7kg, was probably flightless and may have supplemented its largely vegetarian diet with the odd mammal or bird.

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