Birds of the Kerguelen Islands

The Keguelen islands are a volcanic archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean. It consists of around 400 islands, but most of the land area - more than 90% - is on the main island of Grande Terre. The highest mountain is also located there, the Grand Ross at 1850 m above sea level. The climate is cool temperate and corresponds to that of the south coast of Iceland. There are storms for almost half of the year. The bird population is estimated at 10 to 20 million individuals. The birdlife is dominated by maritime bird species, including an endemic species of cormorant. Since there is no airstrip, the islands can only be reached by water.

The Kerguelen Islands are located in the Indian Ocean. Legally the Kerguelen Islands belong to France.
This E-book bird guide for "Kerguelen Islands" has been built at 05.06.2024, based upon our data base and our image archive using our default settings, and saved in two formates. 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.
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Cover image Kerguelen Shag, Drawing: J.Smit

Primary language English, secondary languages German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
All 53 species are illustrated. 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: 31 pages, 2.998 MiB.
ePub E-book in flowable format for all devices with ePub reader: 2.11 MiB.

A paperback version of this bird guide is available from Amazon (ISBN: 9798877203891).
Also you can obtain a Kindle edition from Amazon (ASIN: B0CT4KR7S9).
© Wolfgang J. Daunicht 2024