10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2014
I’ve written before about how the Collared Kingfisher is a million splits waiting to happen (not happened yet), and the golden whistlers of the Pacific have been split now (giving me on from Fiji, one in Australia and one in Vanuatu), but I hadn’t really expected the Wattled Honeyeater to be a split. Photo from ‘Eua, Tonga.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2011
The two endemic species found in Tonga are not found in these islands, and the other species present are also found on more traditional destinations of Fiji and Samoa. I wasn’t there for birding per se, just a chance to get away from New Zealand’s winter in a sunny tropical island.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2013
The family also reaches into India and as far east as samoa and Fiji. The New Zealand Fantail was once placed with the Grey Fantail of Australia, but are now treated as separate, because of science.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
In 2001, Trevor Worthy described a set of bones from Fiji as a new species of very large, flightless pigeon: the Viti Levu Giant Pigeon ( Natunaornis gigoura ). Thankfully not extinct: Western Crowned-Pigeon ( Goura cristata ) at the National Zoo © David J. Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) by J.G.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2011
The Collared Kingfisher isn’t the most widespread kingfisher in the world (a distinction that would probably go to the Common Kingfisher or the Pied Kingfisher ), but it is close, ranging from the African coast of the Red Sea through to Tonga and American Samoa. Subspecies pealei , National Park of American Samoa.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Subspecies pealei , National Park of American Samoa. Subspecies vitiensis , Fiji. The Pacific Kingfisher ( Todiramphus sacer ) is one of three species identified in the South Pacific, the other two being from the Solomon Islands and I have no images of them (The Colonist Kingfisher and Melanesian Kingfisher ). Bryan Harry, USNPS.
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