slender-billed greenfinch

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English

(B) fossilized skull of a slender-billed greenfinch

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slender-billed greenfinch (plural slender-billed greenfinches)

  1. Chloris aurelioi, an extinct species of finch closely related to the European greenfinch (Chloris chloris), known only from fossil remains in Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
    • 2018 May 15, John Bowler, Wildlife of Madeira and the Canary Islands: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
      Analysis of bones discovered in caves on the islands has revealed the former presence of additional endemic species  [] These include the Long-legged Bunting and Slender-billed Greenfinch of Tenerife, both of which were essentially flightless and therefore easy prey for introduced predators.

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