The Stephens Island wren was reported by David Lyall, the only European to ever see it alive, as running about like a mouse. We now know from subfossil remains on both the North and South Islands, that the flightless wren was a relict population of a formerly more widespread species. Two out of four species of the endemic New Zealand wren family have become extinct since European settlement.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 36
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68The Stephens Island wren was reported by David Lyall, the only European to ever see it alive, as running about like a mouse. We now know from subfossil remains on both the North and South Islands, that the flightless wren was a relict population of a formerly more widespread species. Two out of four species of the endemic New Zealand wren family have become extinct since European settlement. Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 36
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