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Ascension Night Heron
Nycticorax olsoni Bourne, Ashmole & Simmons, 2003
Ardeidae — Herons, Bitterns
Ascension Night Heron, Nycticorax olsoni, was an extinct heron of Ascension I in the South Atlantic, within the family Ardeidae and the order Pelecaniformes. It is known chiefly from bone fragments recovered from six specimens in caves and guano deposits on the island. Bourne, Ashmole and Simmons described it in 2003. Its scientific name honours Storrs L. Olson. A possible sixteenth-century account from Ascension may refer to this bird, though the record is uncertain.
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Ardeidae — Herons, Bitterns
- Breeding range
- Atlantic Ocean: Ascension I.
