A crested, almost flightless bluish-grey bird related to the rails, which is found only on the Pacific island of New Caledonia, and is now endangered.
Rhynochetos jubatus, the only member of the family Rhynochetidae
Example sentencesExamples
- The loss of much of New Caledonia's native forests has caused the numbers of kagus to decline.
- Standing knee-high to a human and weighing about two pounds, kagus have long fascinated ornithologists.
- The forests of New Caledonia have been cleared for mining and agriculture, leaving only a few small valleys where the kagus can live.
- It is believed than less than 1,000 kagus still live in New Caledonia, mostly in the South Province.
- So the ancestral kagus gave up flying, keeping large wings for display purposes.