Day 20 'Threatened, Endangered, Extinct'
The South Island snipe (Coenocorypha iredalei), also known as the Stewart Island snipe or tutukiwi in Māori, is an extinct species of bird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae that was endemic to New Zealand. Snipe on the South Island and Stewart Island were probably extirpated by Pacific rats (kiore) introduced by Maori. New Zealand snipes are shorebirds that have gone bush. About the size of a short-tailed, long-beaked blackbird, the South Island snipe survived until the 1960s on Taukihepa (Big South Cape Island), a muttonbird (titi) island south-west of Stewart Island.
Watercolour and ink on A4 150gsm Khadi handmade 100% cotton rag acid-free paper. UNFRAMED