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The species Bush Wren is extinct.

Xenicus longipes

[edit] Identification

9cm. Dark yellow green upperparts, ash grey underparts, dark olive brown head, white eye stripe, dark green tail, yellow flanks, long feet and toes.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to New Zealand.

[edit] Taxonomy

Three subspecies:

• X. l. stokesii on the North Island (extinct around 1850)
• X. l. longipes on the South Island
• X. l. variabilis on small islands around Stewart Island.

[edit] Habitat

Dense, montane forest, coastal forest and scrub.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet included invertebrates.

It was a ground nester.

[edit] References

BirdLife International; nzbirds

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