ISLAND’S BIRDS
ENDEMIC SPECIES
This long study focuses as well on the largest islands as the smallest islets, as long as they have an ornithological interest, even with only one endemic bird species.
An endemic species, plant or animal, lives only in a specific location such as island, habitat type or other defined area. Endemic species are more developed on islands because they are isolated. By living in restricted areas, the endemics often become threatened, endangered or extinct, due to human developments involving disturbances, degradation and destruction of the habitat, but also to introduced species, plants and animals, which become invasive and threaten the native ones.
This page is work in progress for long time.
The cards will be created step by step, according to picture’s availability.
On the other hand, the list of the islands will get longer too.
Pages already completed:
Endemic bird’s species - Puerto Rico
Endemic bird's species - Jamaica
Endemic bird’s species - Trinidad and Tobago
Endemic bird’s species - Cocos Island (Costa Rica)
Avian Species of Clipperton Island
Avian Species of Desventuradas Islands
Endemic bird species of Juan Fernández Islands
Endemic bird’s species - Galapagos Islands
Endemic bird's species - Cyprus
Endemic bird's species - Seychelles
Endemic bird's species - Mayotte
Endemic bird's species - Madagascar
Endemic bird's species - La Reunion
Endemic bird's species - Mauritius
Avian bird species of Tromelin Island
Endemic bird's species - Sri Lanka
Mauritius and Rodrigues Islands extinct endemic bird species
Endemic bird’s species - Canary Islands
Endemic bird species - Vanuatu
Avian species of South Shetland Islands
French Sub Antarctic Islands (Scattered Islands - Kerguelen - Crozet - St Paul and Amsterdam)
Avian species of Norwegian Sub Antarctic Islands (Bouvet Island - Peter I Island)
Avian species of South African Sub Antarctic Islands ( Marion and Prince-Edward Islands)
Endemic bird's species - Falkland Islands
Endemic bird’s species - Australian Sub Antarctic Islands (Macquarie - Heard-et-Mac Donald Islands)
Endemic bird's species - Chatham Islands
Endemic bird's species - New Zealand (North Island - South Island - Stewart Island)
New Zealand extinct endemic bird species
Franz Josef Land - Russian Arctic National Park
Novaya Zemlya (Arctic Ocean in northern Russia)
Severnaya Zemlya (Russian high Arctic)
New Siberian Islands (Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean)
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (Norway territories in the Arctic Ocean)
Works to see later (lack of images)
Antilles (Lesser Antilles and Greater Antilles)
To be continued...
All texts by Nicole Bouglouan
Sources about islands' generalities:
Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
The Pyramid (Chatham Islands)
Simon Tan
PBase Bird galleries