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On another specimen of Faeroese white-speckled raven Corvus corax varius
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2024-09-02
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2024-02-19
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The white-speckled raven, a colour aberration of the Faeroese Common Raven Corvus corax varius Brünnich, 1764, has occurred on the Faeroe Islands since at least the Middle Ages and was always prized by collectors. In the second half of the 19th century while the Faeroese raven population was suffering intense persecution, pied individuals were even more severely hunted, and were extinct by the early 20th century. Twenty-six specimens had been recorded so far in different museum collections, but a 27th has now come to light in the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo. The collector is unknown but given the
collection date, 1846, it was probably an islander rather than a foreign collector.
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Hein van Grouw and Lars Erik Johannessen "On another specimen of Faeroese white-speckled raven Corvus corax varius," Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 144(3), 238-242, (2 September 2024). https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v144i3.2024.a4
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Copyright © 2024 The Authors; This is an open‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published version of the article.
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