Ascension crake
The bird was endemic to Ascension Island. There are plenty of subfossil bones found in deposits of fumaroles on the island. In the 17th century a merchant and traveler gave an account of the bird and sketched it. This merchant described it as "a strange kind of fowle, much bigger then our sterlings ore stares: collour gray or dappled, white and blacke feathers intermixed, eies red like rubies, wings very imperfitt, such as wherewith they cannot raise themselves from the ground. They were taken running, in which they are exceeding swift, helping themselves a little with their wings (as it is said of the estridge), shortt billed, cloven footed, that can neither fly nor swymme.'Jan 26, 2022#crake
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