Species you've never heard of before.

Erm.. Its a Monotypic genus with one species. Are you thinking of something else?
EDIT: Ah, okay. I understand what you mean. All Heliornithidae species? No, Just Heliornis fulica.

 

Can't say which I like better! Both interesting names, I'll just call it the Saola.

 

I just found out about the original bandicoot, the bandicoot rat.

 

Strangely enough, when I was younger I think learned about bandicoot rats before Actual bandicoots!

 

Ah OK, then the sungrebe is only the American finfoot and not the African and Asian finfoots. Thanks for the explanation!

 

My father knew that the original bandicoot was a rat, which surprised me when I was much younger.

 

Mesites
Tamaraw
Giant Ibis
Limpkin
Four-eyed Fish
Palila
Akikiki
Bananaquit

 

Not sure what exactly an "Akikiki" is (sounds like one of the Hawaiian honeycreepers), all the others are species (or groups of species, such as mesites) that I knew before joining Zoochat. Only saw two of them in zoos, tough (The relatively common four-eyed fish and the much rarer bananaquit), while one I would give a kidney for seeing and photographing it alive (the giant ibis). Hmmm.. just exaggeration, I appreciate very much my kidneys

 

I’ve been fortunate enough to see two Mesite species (Brown and Subdesert), both Linmpkin subspecies and several Bananaquit subspecies in the wild. Never seen a Hawaiian honeyeater however.

 

I saw an iiwi at Honolulu Zoo

 

Sounds like the first line of a limerick!

 

I think that many Hawaiian honeycreeper names would do well in games of Scrabble

 

I have actually played iiwi in scrabble with my family in the past!

 

You guessed exactly right.

 

Noddies and Sheltopusik I forgot about

 

I'll admit, there are plenty of species I've never heard of. Unfortunately, I don't know what they are as I've never heard of them before.

 

I saw a wild Limpkin in Florida once.