Koreke, The New Zealand Quail (Coturnix novaezelandiae)
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Description: Describes two other species of quail and tells how this species became extinct.
New Zealand Birds | Birds | Gallery | New Zealand quail, Coturnix novaezelandiae “Sir Joseph Banks in his Journal of Cook’s first voyage mentioned quail as having been seen in New Zealand in 1769 or 1770, and shortly afterwards, in 1772, Crozet found them to be very common at the Bay of Islands”, reports Oliver. “Forster reported them in Queen Charlotte Sound in May, 1773, during Cook’s second voyage. The first specimen to be obtained and described, however, was obtained in 1827 near the River Thames by Quoy and Gaimard, naturalists to the French exploring expedition under d’Urville, which visited New Zealand in the Astrolabe. About 1840, Dieffenbach in the North Island and P. Earl in the South Island reported the quail as not common. I can find no report of it ever being common in the North Island since Crozet’s time. It was taken at Whangarei in 1860 by Captain Mair and was last reported in Taranaki in 1869. In the South Island it was everywhere abundant until about 1865 when it suddenly decreased. The last specimens know to have been taken were those formerly in Buller’s collection obtained in Blueskin Bay in 1867 or 1868.
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