Extinction: Mascarene Coot UWSP GEOG358 [Heywood]
Mascarene Coot (Fulica newtonii) last observed by F. Leguat in 1693 on Mauritius, and by P. Dubois ca. 1670 on Reunion. island forest/swamp ground dweller omnivore endemic
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Extinction: Mascarene Coot UWSP GEOG358 [Heywood]
Mascarene Coot (Fulica newtonii) last observed by F. Leguat in 1693 on Mauritius, and by P. Dubois ca. 1670 on Reunion. island forest/swamp ground dweller omnivore endemic
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/Geog358/endangr/extinctb/MascCoot.htm

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Mascarene Coot [poule d'eau] Fulica newtoni: 1693: Reunion (1672), Mauritius, Mascarene Islands: Chatham Coot: Fulicia [Paleolimnus] chathamensis: 1500
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Mascarene Coot: Fulica newtonii: 1693: Mascarene Islands: island forest/swamp ground dweller omnivore: London and Tring: introduction of rats, cats, and pigs
www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/Geog358/extinctb/ExtinctbL.htm

Conservation
Howe Purple Gallinule Porphyrio albus Lord Howe Is. Australia 1834 Red Rail Aphanapteryx bonasia Mauritius 1693 Rodrigues Rail aphanapteryx leguati Rodrigues Is. Mauritius 1761 Mascarene Coot
www.ioe.ucla.edu/CTR/staff/smith/ornithology/Week-10-Conservation.pdf

Martin Luther King Jr.
Fulica newtoni Milne-Edwards, 1867 - Mascarene Coot (extinct, c.1700) Fulica chathamensis - Chatham Island Coot (prehistoric) Fulica prisca Hamilton, 1893 - New Zealand Coot (prehistoric)
sthweb.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Coot&Itemid=357

John William Hamilton
Mascarene Coot, Fulica newtoni (Mauritius and Réunion, Mascarenes, c. 1700) Fernando de Noronha Rail, Rallidae gen. et sp. indet. (Fernando de Noronha, W. Atlantic, 16th century?)
sthweb.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=List_of_extinct_birds&...