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Armchair Splits in the Pacific

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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.

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Restless New Zealand Fantails

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The family also reaches into India and as far east as samoa and Fiji. This has been benefitial for the species, which suffered considerable losses after the snow storm two years ago but quickly rebounded.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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.’s Birds of New Guinea notes that the species is often seen moving in “high-flying flocks,” and Coates and Bishop’s Bird of Wallacea declares, “this species has suffered greatly from human predation and is now generally scarce to very rare.” Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) by J.G.