Mysterious Starling
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The Mysterious Starling Aplonis mavornata was a starling found on the island of Mauke, Cook Islands. The only known specimen was collected by Andrew Bloxam, naturalist on board HMS Blonde, on the afternoon of 9th August 1825. The island was not visited again by ornithologists until the 1970s, by which time the bird was extinct, presumably due to predation by introduced rats.
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