Chatham Duck

Chatham Duck
Conservation status
Extinct
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Anseriformes
Family:	Anatidae
Subfamily:	Tadorninae
Genus:	Pachyanas
Species:	P. chathamica
Binomial name
Pachyanas chathamica (Oliver, 1955)

The Chatham Duck or Chatham Island Duck(Pachyanas chathamica) is an extinct species of duck, in the monotypic genus Pachyanas, which once lived in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands in the south-west Pacific Ocean. It was described by Walter Oliver (as a “stoutly built duck”) from bird bones in the collection of the Canterbury Museum, in 1955 in the second edition of his work New Zealand Birds.^[1] It was probably flightless,^[2] and became extinct in about the 16th century because of hunting by humans.^[3]

References

Notes

1. ^ Oliver (1955), p.599.
2. ^ Shugart (2007), p.120.
3. ^ Tennyson & Martinson (2006).

Sources

• Oliver, W.R.B. (1955). New Zealand Birds. Wellington: Reed. ISBN 0-589-00851-X. 
• Shugart, H.H. (2007). How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300122701. 
• Tennyson, A.; & Martinson, P. (2006). Extinct Birds of New Zealand. Wellington: Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8. 

External links

• Chatham Island Duck Pachyanas chathamica by Paul Martinson. Artwork produced for the book Extinct Birds of New Zealand, by Alan Tennyson, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2006