Snail-eating Coua - Coua delalandei
( Temminck, 1827 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
Est. World Population: 0

CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Extinct
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
It was a terrestrial species of primary rainforest (Collar and Stuart 1985). Observations by Ackerman (1841) suggest its primary food source was molluscs.


Range:
Coua delalandei is known from several specimens all collected from Île Sainte-Marie, Madagascar (Hume 2017), with the most recent from 1834 (Collar and Stuart 1985). It has been reported that the species formally occurred on the mainland, but there is no direct evidence to this effect (Hume 2017).


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