Birds of the Cook Islands

The Cook Islands are located in the southern Pacific and are of volcanic origin. A distinction is made between a northern group of islands with 6 flat islands and a coral reef under water and a southern group of islands with 9 islands and a coral reef under water. The largest is Rarotonga with the capital Avanua and an international airport and Mount Te Manga, which reaches a height of 658m. The climate is temperate to tropical and tropical cyclones can occur from March to December. The Cook Islands are very isolated, so some endemic bird species have evolved here. BirdLife International has recognized two areas in the southern archipelago as EBAs (Endemic Bird Areas). One of the endemic species has now become extinct due to introduced rats. Tourism plays the most important role economically in the Cook Islands. This country has been ranked # 1 in Best Travel Destinations by Lonely Planet for 2022.

This E-book bird guide for "Cook Islands" has been built at 10.12.2023, based upon our data base and our image archive using our default settings, and saved in two formats. Thereby it is made sure that the e-book can be displayed on virtually all devices and if applicable be printed out with a compact page size.
A free online-preview to the main section of the bird guide to Cook Islands - of course at today's state of the data base and the archive - is available at Bird guides customized. There you can not only obtain the current edition of "Birds of the Cook Islands", but also modify the form in many ways.
Cover image Spectacled Tern, Drawing: J.G.Keulemans

Primary language English, secondary languages German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
All 91 species are illustrated. In addition, links to HD videos of 7 bird species (2m 52s) and audios of 3 bird species (1m ) are included. The assessment of the global conservation status of bird species uses the criteria of the Red List (IUCN) 2012.
The scientific system follows Clements et al. 2017.
An index, name registers in all selected languages and a scientific name register, all completely linked.
PDF E-book in page-based format A5: 48 pages, 4.908 MiB.
ePub E-book in flowable format for all devices with ePub reader: 3.882 MiB.

A paperback version of this bird guide is available from Amazon (ISBN: 979-8756153101).
Also you can obtain a Kindle edition from Amazon (ASIN: B09KP1NVS5).
© Wolfgang J. Daunicht 2023