Marquesas swamphen

id: marquesas-swamphen-173-17015769
title: Marquesas swamphen
text: The Marquesas swamphen is an extinct species of swamphen from the Marquesas Islands Hiva Oa and Tahuata. It was originally described from 600-year-old subfossil remains from Tahuata and Hiva Oa. It may have survived to around 1900; in the lower right corner of Paul Gauguin's 1902 painting Le Sorcier d'Hiva Oa ou le Marquisien à la cape rouge there is a bird which resembles native descriptions of Porphyrio paepae. Thor Heyerdahl claimed to have seen a similar flightless bird on Hiva Oa in 1937.
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description: Extinct species of bird
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas_swamphen
date created: 2007-11-14T01:10:22Z
date modified: 2024-09-02T16:24:26Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Paul_Gauguin_-_Le_Sorcier_d%27Hiva_Oa2.jpg","width":2588,"height":1716}
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