Stout-legged Wren

Stout-legged Wren

Taxobox
name = Stout-legged Wren
status = Fossil
image_width =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
subordo = Acanthisitti
familia = Acanthisittidae
genus = "Pachyplichas"
species = "P. yaldwyni"
binomial = "Pachyplichas yaldwyni "

Stout-legged Wren, "Pachyplichas yaldwyni", was the largest (by weight) of the New Zealand Wrens. This flightless bird went extinct shortly after the introduction of the "kiore" by the Maori


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