Amsterdam wigeon
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title:
Amsterdam wigeon
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The Amsterdam wigeon, also known as the Amsterdam Island duck or Amsterdam duck, was a species of anatid waterfowl, endemic to Île Amsterdam, the French Southern Territories. The flightless species is only known from bones and was presumably driven extinct by visiting sealers and the rats they introduced. A 1696 sighting by William de Vlaming of "four-footed animals" in the reeds of Amsterdam Island may have been of this duck, as there are no native land mammals on the island. No naturalist visi
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Extinct species of bird
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_wigeon
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2023-11-30T20:05:01Z
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