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from 39 fossil bones in museums allowed the relationship between New Zealand and Australian swans to be re-examined, and it turned out the mainland New Zealand and Chatham Island populations formed a distinct group, separated from Australian birds by perhaps 1–2 million years. They proved
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in New Zealand represented one of the very rare cases of a species replacing itself after extinction. After the extinction of the poūwa, there is some evidence occasional vagrant swans arrived from Australia, but it was not until after its deliberate introduction in the 1860s that
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with Australian swan bones, but could not find any marked differences in size or proportion. The species was thenceforth considered to be a population of the black swan that had colonised New Zealand in prehistoric times and been exterminated by early
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functions as an ecological surrogate of its extinct relative is unknown. Judging by the presence of their bones in middens, New Zealand swans were driven extinct by the first
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into New Zealand " so the bones could not be from introduced black swans; he also noted that they were larger than those of the Australian species.
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Worthy, Trevor H. (1998). "A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand".
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Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Kardamaki, Afroditi; Easton, Luke J.; Tennyson, Alan J. D.; Scofield, R. Paul; Waters, Jonathan M. (2017).
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was distinctly larger than its Australian relative, weighing an estimated 10 kg to the 6 kg of
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Dawson, E. W. (1958). "Re-discoveries of the New Zealand subfossil birds named by H.O. Forbes".
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became established and increased to a population of approximately 50,000 today. Whether
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remains in 1889, it was originally considered a separate species from the Australian
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The first fossil swan bones in New Zealand were recovered from Monck's Cave,
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settlers around AD 1450 on the mainland and AD 1650 on the Chatham Islands.
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to be designated a separate and genetically distinct species, and the name
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inhabitants of the cave. Forbes described the new swan species from three
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settlers, and all New Zealand subfossil swan bones were assigned to
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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for the species, from a legend of a large bird that lived in
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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They were found associated with 14: 2324:Late Quaternary prehistoric birds 665:"NZ's ill-fated burly black swan" 2086:North Island little spotted kiwi 1323: 873:Records of the Canterbury Museum 74: 466:compared a large collection of 2037:North Island stout-legged wren 2032:South Island stout-legged wren 693:Rawlence, Nic (26 July 2017). 1: 2334:Fossil taxa described in 1890 829:Oliver, Walter R. B. (1955). 771:Forbes, Henry O. (1890). "". 2314:Extinct birds of New Zealand 496:sufficiently different from 2339:Birds with names in Moriori 569:Gibb, John (27 July 2017). 550:Largest prehistoric animals 382:and fish bones, seal hair, 251:) is an extinct indigenous 2355: 2236:Cygnus atratus sumnerensis 2206:Cygnus atratus sumnerensis 2157:New Zealand owlet-nightjar 1231:South Island oystercatcher 215:Cygnus atratus sumnerensis 1998:Auckland Island merganser 1321: 892:The Lost World of the Moa 798:Forbes, Henry O. (1890). 470:from Marfells Beach near 206: 199: 177: 170: 71:Scientific classification 69: 57: 48: 39: 23: 2010:Chatham Island merganser 1577:Northern royal albatross 1565:New Zealand storm petrel 571:"At last, NZ's own swan" 428:was considered lost, so 2273:new-zealand-swan-matapu 1630:South Island saddleback 1618:North Island saddleback 1594:Orange-fronted parakeet 1366:North Island brown kiwi 487:Revival of species name 424:By the 1950s, Forbes's 240: 16:Extinct species of swan 2178: 2161: 2149: 2132: 2120: 2078: 2056: 2019: 2002: 1965: 1953: 1941: 1916: 1904: 1882: 1845: 1823: 1796: 1784: 1767: 1755: 1743: 1726: 1709: 1697: 1670: 1658: 1646: 1634: 1622: 1610: 1598: 1586: 1569: 1557: 1545: 1541:New Zealand fairy tern 1508: 1496: 1484: 1472: 1445: 1428: 1406: 1394: 1382: 1370: 1358: 1346: 1312: 1300: 1288: 1276: 1272:Variable oystercatcher 1259: 1247: 1235: 1223: 1211: 1199: 1187: 1170: 1158: 1136: 1124: 1107: 1095: 1083: 1071: 1059: 1047: 1035: 1023: 1011: 999: 987: 975: 963: 625:10.1098/rspb.2017.0876 2169:New Zealand musk duck 2116:Scarlett's shearwater 1993:South Island adzebill 1988:North Island adzebill 1878:Erect-crested penguin 1722:Chatham oystercatcher 1553:New Zealand king shag 1195:New Zealand rock wren 745:Meeson, John (1889). 545:Pleistocene megafauna 301:, a clear display of 2319:Holocene extinctions 1819:Antipodean albatross 1809:Subantarctic islands 1132:New Zealand dotterel 1031:Double-banded plover 943:Birds of New Zealand 400:Chenopis sumnerensis 210:Chenopis sumnerensis 2128:North Island takahē 2003:rakiraki maungahuka 1949:New Zealand bittern 1937:South Island piopio 1890:Reischek's parakeet 1536:South Island kōkako 1531:North Island kōkako 1419:South Island takahē 1402:Yellow-eyed penguin 1390:Southern brown kiwi 1354:Little spotted kiwi 448:Cygnus chathamensis 315:Chenonetta finschi) 220:Cygnus chathamensis 163:C. sumnerensis 51:Conservation status 2096:South Island snipe 2091:North Island snipe 1912:Subantarctic snipe 1863:Campbell albatross 1853:Antipodes parakeet 1797:kawau o rangihaute 1468:Black-fronted tern 1342:Great spotted kiwi 1284:White-fronted tern 1149:North Island robin 1144:South Island robin 1103:Long-tailed cuckoo 1043:New Zealand falcon 724:Christchurch Press 619:(1859): 20170876. 510:C. s. chathamensis 374:, Director of the 248:Cygnus sumnerensis 184:Cygnus sumnerensis 2296: 2295: 2281:Open Tree of Life 2198:Taxon identifiers 2189: 2188: 2140:New Zealand goose 1961:New Zealand quail 1705:Chatham albatross 1424:Fiordland penguin 1166:Paradise shelduck 1154:New Zealand scaup 1091:Sacred kingfisher 1079:Grey-faced petrel 971:Black-billed gull 831:New Zealand Birds 581:on 17 August 2017 575:Otago Daily Times 506:C. s. sumnerensis 432:in 1955 declared 376:Canterbury Museum 319:New Zealand goose 227: 226: 64: 2346: 2289: 2288: 2276: 2275: 2266: 2265: 2253: 2252: 2250:0EFEC802EEED9BDD 2240: 2239: 2238: 2225: 2224: 2223: 2193: 2181: 2174:New Zealand swan 2164: 2152: 2135: 2123: 2081: 2059: 2027:Long-billed wren 2022: 2005: 1968: 1956: 1944: 1919: 1907: 1885: 1848: 1826: 1799: 1787: 1770: 1758: 1746: 1734:Chatham parakeet 1729: 1717:Chatham gerygone 1712: 1700: 1673: 1661: 1649: 1637: 1625: 1613: 1601: 1589: 1572: 1560: 1548: 1511: 1499: 1487: 1475: 1448: 1431: 1409: 1397: 1385: 1373: 1361: 1349: 1327: 1315: 1303: 1291: 1279: 1262: 1250: 1238: 1226: 1214: 1202: 1190: 1173: 1161: 1139: 1127: 1110: 1098: 1086: 1074: 1062: 1050: 1038: 1026: 1014: 1007:Buff-banded rail 1002: 990: 978: 966: 936: 929: 922: 913: 906: 905: 887: 881: 880: 868: 862: 861: 841: 835: 834: 826: 820: 819: 795: 789: 788: 785:10.1038/041207a0 768: 759: 758: 742: 736: 735: 733: 731: 726:. 8 October 1889 716: 710: 709: 707: 705: 690: 681: 680: 678: 676: 661: 655: 654: 644: 604: 591: 590: 588: 586: 577:. Archived from 566: 539:Cygnus falconeri 522:Te Whanga lagoon 414:Chenopsis atrata 394:and two partial 303:island gigantism 267:. 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Index

Pleistocene
Holocene

Conservation status
Extinct
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Anseriformes
Anatidae
Cygnus
Binomial name
Forbes
Synonyms
Moriori
swan
Chatham Islands
South Island
New Zealand
archaeological
black swan
Cygnus atratus
island gigantism
Finsch's duck
New Zealand goose
Polynesian
Sumner

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