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The species Huia is extinct.

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Heteralocha acutirostris

[edit] Identification

Extinct, last record 1907.

The bird had blue-black plumage, bright orange wattles at the gape and white-tipped tail feathers.

[edit] Distribution

New Zealand.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

It built a saucer-shaped nest about 35 cm across. 2-4 greyish eggs of 30 to 40 mm were normally laid.

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