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South Island kōkako : ウィキペディア英語版 | South Island kōkako
The South Island kōkako (''Callaeas cinereus'') is a forest bird which is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. It is grey in colour, with a small black mask. It had largely orange wattles, with only a small patch of blue at the base. The kōkako was first described by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788. Its species name is the Latin adjective ''cinereus'' "grey". ==Threats and conservation== In the early 1900s the South Island kōkako was widespread in the South Island and Stewart Island. It has fared worse than the North Island kōkako and was formally declared extinct by the New Zealand Department of Conservation on 16 January 2007. However, in November 2013 the Ornithological Society of New Zealand changed its classification from extinct to "data deficient", after they accepted as genuine a reported sighting near Reefton in 2007. The last accepted sighting before this was in 1967. Unconfirmed sightings have also occasionally been reported.〔Grey Ghost website for South Island kokako sightings: http://www.greyghost.org.nz/〕〔(Fresh signs of long-lost kokako in Fiordland - 29 Mar 2006 - NZ Herald )〕 In the 1990s, Timberlands, the state owned enterprise tasked with managing the former New Zealand Forest Service's west coast forests found some evidence of kōkako in the research into native forest ecology it conducted as part of its sustainable management program.〔(N.Z. Forestry ) , May 1996〕
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