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Tongatapu and ‘Eua; Birding Southern Tonga

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

I mentioned last week, while talking about rails and the Pacific, that Tonga is not a particularly birdy birding destination. A combination of extinctions and proximity to Fiji means that a trip to that island group would net you pretty much all the same birds plus a whole raft of others.

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Tonga Fiji New Zealand Parrots

The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane

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Tongatapu and ‘Eua; Birding Southern Tonga

The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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