Tasman starling

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• Expanded physical description of the Lord Howe starling (size, coloration, and plumage details) appears for the first time in this revision.
• New extinction timeline provides a concrete date (June 1918) and outcome (vanished by 1919) linked to an ecological event (Makambo grounding) that expands the extinction narrative.

Add: The fate of the Lord Howe starling was sealed in June 1918 when the SS Makambo grounded at Ned's Beach thus allowing black rat s to leave the vessel and overrun the island Within two years 40 of Lord Howe's endemic bird species were extinct including the Lord Howe fantail Lord Howe gerygone and robust white eye The Lord Howe starling vanished by 1919.

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