High-billed Crow

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High-billed Crow
Conservation status
Extinct
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Corvus Species: C. impluviatus
Binomial name
Corvus impluviatus Olson & James, 1991

The High-billed Crow, Corvus impluviatus, was a species of crow that was endemic to the island of Maui^{[citation needed]} in the Hawaiian Islands. It was pushed to extinction due to the arrival of people and pests like rats.

[edit] References

• Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James, 1991. Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 46 (1991) The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington D.C.
• The Honolulu Advertiser, August 2007