Family: Ardeidae (Herons)

Authority: (Newton & Gadow, 1893)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species is known from the mainland of Mauritius. The only potential account of the species in life is from 1693, and it likely went extinct sometime in the early 1700s.

Population size: 0 mature individuals

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Afrotropical
IUCN System - Freshwater