Gruiformes

Kagu (Rhynochetidae)

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• Medium-sized flightless birds, with long crest feathers, and distinctively banded wings.
• New Caledonia.
• Forests and certain types of shrubland.
• 1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.
• 1 species threatened; none extinct since 1600.