Kagu or Cagou
The Kagu (French: Cagou), Rhynochetos jubatus, is a long-legged blue-greyish bird endemic to the dense mountain forests of New Caledonia.
Kagu
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Kagu
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(kä´g), common name for a long-legged, heronlike bird, Rhynochetos jubatus.
The island range of the Kagu gradually retreated to the interior mountains and valleys, but much of this remaining habitat was subsequently destroyed by nickel-mining activities.
Kagu pairs occupy territories that are 10 to 28 hectares in size (2). They are active during the day, sleeping on nests at night (4). A single chick is raised each year, although in particularly dry years even this may not be possible (4).
Kagu
Rhynochetos jubatus
[New Caledonia]
Once considered virtually impossible to see, this exceptional bird of very uncertain affinities is making a good recovery in the forest remnants due to predator removal and captive breeding.
*Many now place the Kagu and Sunbittern together in the new order Eurypygiforms. For more info, see #3 on Dave Ringer's recent post.
Glad you guys are reading each other's blogs too.
I've seen oodles of Sunbitterns, but the Kagu eludes me.cheers! ...
For instance, the kagu (Rhinochetus) of New Caledonia, a queerly specialized form with Gruine affinities pointing only to South America. The toothbilled pigeon (Didunculus) is restricted to Samoa.
Although it looks and acts a bit like a heron it seems to be most closely related to the Kagu Rhynochetos jubatus of New Caledonia, near Australia, so this relationship might go back to when Gondwanaland existed.
The first and smallest, Metaves contains flamingos and grebes,alongside the hoatzin, pigeons, sand grouse, the paraphyletic Caprimulgiformes, the Apodiformes, tropic birds, mesites, sunbittern and kagu.
 See also: Bittern, Pigeon, Sunbittern, Grouse, Parrot
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