Well attestedNamed from the place
Chatham Islands penguin
noun · first attested 2019
The bird was named almost four centuries after the last one died.
An extinct crested penguin, Eudyptes warhami, that lived on the Chatham Islands.
-44.0000°S -176.5000°W · Q115459
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 2019
- Part of speech
- noun
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Chatham Islands
- In English
Chatham Islands penguin
Bones from dunes and Polynesian middens on the Chatham Islands were long assumed to belong to living penguin species. Ancient DNA showed otherwise, and the bird was described as a new species in 2019. It seems to have disappeared within roughly 150 years of human settlement of the islands.
New Zealand
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