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Bermuda night heron

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There are also early historian reports referring to the species. It possibly became extinct due to the settlement of the Bermuda islands in the 17th century. On Bermuda, the aforementioned yellow-crowned night heron was introduced in the 1970s to act as its proxy in the ecosystem, mostly to act as
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for land crabs, which have dug holes that interfere with the island's golf courses. Due to being generalist feeders instead of specialised feeders like
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has been recorded to have caused record declines in land crab populations, as well as feeding on the critically endangered
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and the hind limbs showed that it was apparently adapted to the feeding on
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Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
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Conservation status
Extinct
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Pelecaniformes
Ardeidae
Nyctanassa
Binomial name
Olson
Wingate
Synonyms
Bermuda
Nycticorax
Storrs L. Olson
David B. Wingate
subfossil
Pleistocene
Holocene
anatomy
yellow-crowned night heron
bill
land crabs
biological control
Bermuda rock lizard

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