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3 unusual facts about Trevor H. Worthy


Trevor H. Worthy

In the 1990s Worthy discovered several fossil bird species new to science, including the Long-billed Wren (Dendroscansor decurvirostris) in 1991, the Scarlett's Shearwater (Puffinus spelaeus) in 1991, and the Niue Night Heron (Nycticorax kalavikai) in 1995.

For the book The Lost World of the Moa (2002) he and Richard Holdaway received the D. L. Serventy Medal from the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 2003 for an outstanding published work about Australasian avifauna.

By 1998 he spend on Fiji, where he found subfossil material of the flightless Viti Levu Giant Pigeon (Natunaornis gigoura), the Viti Levu Scrubfowl (Megapodius amissus), the Viti Levu Snipe (Coenocorypha miratropica), the Giant Fiji ground frog (Platymantis megabotoniviti), and the small freshwater crocodile Volia athollandersoni.



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