High-billed Crow

High-billed Crow
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 3.1)
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 large, raven-sized crow that was endemic to the island of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. It was pushed to extinction due to the arrival of people and pests like rats.

References

Olson, Storrs L.; James, Helen F. (1991). "Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II". Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 46: 1–88. hdl:10088/1746.
Milberg, Per; Tyrberg, Tommy (1993). "Naïve birds and noble savages. A review of man-caused prehistoric extinctions of island birds". Ecography 16 (3): 229–250. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.1993.tb00213.x.
TenBruggencate, Jan (2007-08-07). "Oahu sinkholes yield extinct birds". The Honolulu Advertiser. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Aug/07/ln/hawaii708070352.html.