| Brief Description |
This single bone of the extinct New Zealand Owlet-Nightjar was collected by Taylor Brown from a tomo or sinkhole on Motukawa Land Co Ltd farm, Moawhango Valley Road near Taihape in December 2000, and donated by landowner Warren Plimmer. The extinct Owlet-Nightjar (Aegotheles novaezealandiae), whose closest relative is in New Caledonia, was a small ground-foraging nocturnal bird with an owl-like facial disc. It is known only from rare partial skeletons, was probably a poor flyer, and was driven extinct by the Polynesian rats or kiore introduced by the first human settlers.
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