Canary Islands quail

Canary Islands quail
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene
Limb bones
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Coturnix
Species:
C. gomerae
Binomial name
Coturnix gomerae
Jaume, McMinn & Alcover, 1993

The Canary Islands quail (Coturnix gomerae) is an extinct quail species that once occurred on the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands, Spain).

Extinction

This quail was most likely still present in the Canary Islands after humans settled there. Cats could have been one of the causes of the disappearance of some little flying birds like the Canary Islands quail.

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