Nestor de Norfolk
The Nestor de Norfolk ( Nestor productus ) was a large parrot with prominent nozzle, the plumage brown-olive and the orange breast piece.
This disappeared species lived on the island of Norfolk. It was described for the first time by Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798) and her son Georg Forster (1754-1794) at the time of discovered island by the captain James Cook (1728-1779) the October 10th 1774. The species was driven out by the first colonists or reduced in captivity. It had to disappear in a natural state at the beginning of the 19th century. The last specimen died out with London in 1851.
It is John Gould (1804-1881) which makes appear the first scientific description of the species. At the time of its voyage in Australia, it establishes that the bird was also present on the island Phillip, uninhabited.
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