slender-billed greenfinches

Noun

slender-billed greenfinch (plural slender-billed greenfinches)

1. Chloris aurelioi, an extinct species of finch closely related to the European greenfinch (Chloris chloris), known only from fossil remains in Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
   • Analysis of bones discovered in caves on the islands has revealed the former presence of additional endemic species […] These include the Long-legged Bunting and Slender-billed Greenfinch of Tenerife, both of which were essentially flightless and therefore easy prey for introduced predators.2018 May 15, John Bowler, Wildlife of Madeira and the Canary Islands: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Princeton University Press...