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• Ascension_Night_Heron abstract "The Ascension Night Heron (Nycticorax olsoni) is an extinct Night heron species from the genus Nycticorax endemic to the South Atlantic island of Ascension. It is predominantly known from the bone fragments of six specimens found in guano deposits and caves on Ascension Island and described by Philip Ashmole, Kenneth Edwin Laurence Ryder Simmons, and William Richmond Postle Bourne in 2003.The Ascension Night Heron disappeared in the 16th century. Its scientific name commedorates Storrs L. Olson.A possible report on the Ascension Night Heron is found in the chapter "D'une isle nommte I'Ascention" in the travel report Les singularitez de la France antarctique by André Thévet. Given the fact that Thévet allude to a flightless bird named Aponar in 1555, it could be quite possible that he referred to the Ascension Night Heron. The English translation of Thevet's notice about the Aponar (sometimes also written Aponat or Aponard) is stated as followedIt is known that Thevet is not entirely reliable and sometimes invented animals or other details. The name aponard is attested by Jacques Cartier, who used it for the Great Auk in a report on a Northwest Atlantic expedition a few years earlier. No Great Auk or similar bones could be found on Ascension; they are rather heavy for bird bones, the Great Auk having been a large flightless species adapted to diving and certainly would preserve better than those of a Nycticorax. Considering this and biogeography, it is as good as certain that Thevet cannot have seen the same bird as Cartier encountered on the Great Banks. Cartier's reports aroused considerable interest among the educated French around 1550, and it is quite likely that Thevet himself had read them and that they were his source for the name. Whether Theved invented his aponar in yet another attempt to make his book more interesting - as he was wont to -, or whether his testimony is in fact a description of the Nycticorax is hard to decide. Cartier's description is vague and Thevet had almost certainly not seen an actual Great Auk by 1558; his description may equally well apply to either that bird or a Nycticorax, though some details - the comparison with herons or the voice - seem to fit the Ascension Night Heron better than the Great Auk.".
• Ascension_Night_Heron binomialAuthority Kenneth_Edwin_Laurence_Ryder_Simmons.
• Ascension_Night_Heron binomialAuthority Philip_Ashmole.
• Ascension_Night_Heron class Bird.
• Ascension_Night_Heron conservationStatus "EX".
• Ascension_Night_Heron conservationStatusSystem "IUCN3.1".
• Ascension_Night_Heron family Heron.
• Ascension_Night_Heron genus Nycticorax.
• Ascension_Night_Heron kingdom Animal.
• Ascension_Night_Heron order Pelecaniformes.
• Ascension_Night_Heron phylum Chordate.
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• Ascension_Night_Heron wikiPageID "14555242".
• Ascension_Night_Heron wikiPageRevisionID "551083667".
• Ascension_Night_Heron binomial "Nycticorax olsoni".
• Ascension_Night_Heron classis Bird.
• Ascension_Night_Heron familia Heron.
• Ascension_Night_Heron genus "Nycticorax".
• Ascension_Night_Heron hasPhotoCollection Ascension_Night_Heron.
• Ascension_Night_Heron name "Ascension Night Heron".
• Ascension_Night_Heron ordo Pelecaniformes.
• Ascension_Night_Heron phylum Chordate.
• Ascension_Night_Heron regnum "Animalia".
• Ascension_Night_Heron species "N. olsoni".
• Ascension_Night_Heron status "EX".
• Ascension_Night_Heron statusSystem "IUCN3.1".
• Ascension_Night_Heron subject Category:Animals_described_in_2003.
• Ascension_Night_Heron subject Category:Bird_extinctions_since_1500.
• Ascension_Night_Heron subject Category:Extinct_birds_of_Atlantic_islands.
• Ascension_Night_Heron subject Category:Extinct_flightless_birds.
• Ascension_Night_Heron subject Category:Nycticorax.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type Animal100015388.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type AnimalsDescribedIn2003.
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• Ascension_Night_Heron type Chordate101466257.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type ExtinctFlightlessBirds.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type LivingThing100004258.
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• Ascension_Night_Heron type Organism100004475.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type PhysicalEntity100001930.
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• Ascension_Night_Heron type Vertebrate101471682.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type Whole100003553.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type Animal.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type Bird.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type Eukaryote.
• Ascension_Night_Heron type Species.
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• Ascension_Night_Heron comment "The Ascension Night Heron (Nycticorax olsoni) is an extinct Night heron species from the genus Nycticorax endemic to the South Atlantic island of Ascension. It is predominantly known from the bone fragments of six specimens found in guano deposits and caves on Ascension Island and described by Philip Ashmole, Kenneth Edwin Laurence Ryder Simmons, and William Richmond Postle Bourne in 2003.The Ascension Night Heron disappeared in the 16th century. Its scientific name commedorates Storrs L.".
• Ascension_Night_Heron label "Ascension Night Heron".
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• Ascension_Night_Heron sameAs Ascension_Night_Heron.
• Ascension_Night_Heron wasDerivedFrom Ascension_Night_Heron?oldid=551083667.
• Ascension_Night_Heron isPrimaryTopicOf Ascension_Night_Heron.
• Ascension_Night_Heron name "Ascension Night Heron".