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An adult kakerori with typical grey pluamge. Photo: Marcus Lawson

Conservation successes in the Cook Islands

December 9, 2022

The delightful little kākerōri, or Rarotonga flycatcher, has been brought back from the brink of extinction in a Cook Islands conservation success story. In the mid-1980s New Zealand ecologist Rod Hay identified the critically endangered kākerōri as one of the Top Ten most at-risk birds in t

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Santo Mountain Starling

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Threatened Species Factsheet No. 13

2 pages. PDF

Santa Cruz Ground Dove

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Threatened Species Factsheet No. 12

2 pages. PDF

UPLAND BIRD COMMUNITIES ON SANTO, VANUATU, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

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The Wilson Journal of ornithology 118 (3): 295-308. PDF file

An ornithological survey of Vanuatu of the islands of Efate, Malakula, Gaua and Vanua Lava.

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Checklist - the journal of biodiversity data. 13 (6): 755-582

Distributional ecology of New Hebridean Birds: A special kaleidoscope.

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Funafuti Marine Conservation Area, Tuvalu. Report of the Bird Survey 1998

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Watling 1998

Funded by: SOUTH PACIFIC BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION PROGRAMME, SOUTH PACIFIC REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (SPREP), APIA,SAMOA

Environmental Consultants Fiji Ltd.

The bird catchers of Nauru

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Photocopy article by Vigors Earle published in Walkabout (Sept. 1st, 1941)

The overlooked collection of Ludwig Kaiser and a little- known report on birds of Nauru

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BOC Bulletin. Scientific article

Photo: Doka Nason/American Bird Conservancy

In PNG, researchers find a large pigeon lost to science for 140 years

November 25, 2022

After 140 years, a lost-to-science pigeon subspecies has been spotted once again on Fergusson Island, off eastern Papua New Guinea.

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