Turdus Solitarius (Latin for solitary thrush) was a constellation created by French astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier in 1776 from stars of Hydra's tail. It was named after the Rodrigues solitaire, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues East of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.[1] It was replaced by another constellation, Noctua (the Owl), in A Celestial Atlas (1822) by the British amateur astronomer Alexander Jamieson, but neither was adopted by the International Astronomical Union among its 88 recognized constellations.
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TurdusSolitarius (Latin for solitary thrush) was a constellation created by French astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier in 1776 from stars of Hydra's...
in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Turdussolitarius. The scientific name is from Latin. Monticola is from mons, montis...
the only extinct bird with a former constellation named after it, TurdusSolitarius. The French explorer François Leguat was the first to refer to the...
Rodrigues remembered having seen living birds. The star constellation TurdusSolitarius was named after this bird.[citation needed] Today 17 endemic bird...
viscivorus); occasional WV Redwing (Turdus iliacus) Song thrush (Turdus philomelos); very common WV Blue thrush (Monticola solitarius); common WV and locally common...
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