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Even red list species are being exported under the claim that they are captive bred despite the lack of breeding facilities in the archipelago. Amazingly, CITES is actually getting on the case after the practice has been going on for only ten years… a.
The large, crested Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) inhabited Choiseul and perhaps nearby islands in the SolomonIslands. SolomonIslanders say that the species was driven to extinction by cats and dogs introduced by Europeans. Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) by J.G.
The species was in the news because some scientists had finally managed (or bothered – it’s much the same thing) to locate the population high in the mountains of the SolomonIslands, and catch and photograph one.
In short, I truly believe that there still are, maybe not plenty but a good number of species that to this day go unnoticed to the scientific eye, but are surely known to the indigenous peoples (the best example is the newly discovered giant rat from the SolomonIslands). The Cocha Antshrike was one of these species not long ago.
There are four species in the family, ranging from India to the SolomonIslands. Of course this is nonsense, and they are clearly close to swifts, but with a hind toe that lets them perch like a swallow, they sit outside the family as well, in their own, rarely thought about, family.
I quickly got a good view of an Orange-breasted Honeyeater , a local endemic, and the Vanikoro Flycatcher , a geographically disjunct oddity that occurs only in Fiji and the Solomonislands. The Kadavu race is now placed in the White-throated Whistler , along with birds from Gau and Lau in Fiji and some birds in the SolomonIslands.
This attitude of superiority and arrogance can be seen in the recent story about a researcher on the SolomonIslands who mist trapped a bird not seen by scientists for fifty years.
On one memorable occasion, I recall a birder breaking his cover while I was watching the movie, “The Thin Red Line” Given that the director of that war film is into nature and might also be a birder, I guess it was expected that a few fantastic looking birds from the SolomonIslands would appear on the screen now and then.
Black-faced Pitta is found only on one of the SolomonIslands (northwest of Australia). It isn’t till his travels get under way that we learn, chapter by chapter, about the specific difficulties of locating and viewing pittas. The endangered Gurney’s Pitta is losing habitat due to deforestation.
Few people consider the 11th hour the least bit appealing. However, with just over two hours left to go until this post is supposed to be published, here I am reading 10,000Birds and having a good chuckle here and there – while learning a thing or two.
It starts with a flight, then another, then another, then still, one more – to then realise that the island you’ve just landed on is only as big as the airstrip itself which by some miracle is covered in tarmac – to then get on a boat to go to a market to then get back on the boat and jettison over the waves splitting flocks of Great (..)
While Australian birds migrate to New Guinea, New Zealand birds migrate to the Bismark Archipelago and the SolomonIslands (there are also resident populations in New Caledonia and Vanuatu). Shining Bronze-cuckoos are, along with the Long-tailed Cuckoos, the only migrant landbirds of New Zealand.
The answer should be obvious to any birder that enjoys a bit of twitching; they were lost.The species is actually prone to that; they regularly turn up in New Guinea and the SolomonIslands.
The Pacific Kingfisher ( Todiramphus sacer ) is one of three species identified in the South Pacific, the other two being from the SolomonIslands and I have no images of them (The Colonist Kingfisher and Melanesian Kingfisher ). Tom Tarrant (Creative Commons, Attribution share-alike). Pacific Kingfisher. Bryan Harry, USNPS.
Vanuatu has five subspecies, Fiji has three, and the far flung SolomonIslands have twelve. It’s when you start heading off into the Pacific, however, that you start bumping into the really unusual forms. It is also where the majority of subspecies occur.
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