Birds of Niue island

The island of Niue is one of the largest raised atolls on earth, it represents the top of an extinct volcano and is often just called "The Rock". The central plateau reaches an altitude of 69 m asl. The climate is tropical with south-easterly winds and occasional cyclones. The bird life is of course dominated by pelagic bird species. There are no endemic bird species, but there are endemic bird subspecies: ssp. whitmeei of the Polynesian Triller and ssp. brunnescens of the Polynesian Starling.

Niue island is located in the Pacific Ocean. Legally Niue island belongs to Niue.
This E-book bird guide for "Niue island" 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.
A free online-preview to the main section of the bird guide to Niue island - 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 Niue island", but also modify the form in many ways.
Cover image Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove, Drawing: J.Smit

Primary language English, secondary languages German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
All 81 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: 42 pages, 4.743 MiB.
ePub E-book in flowable format for all devices with ePub reader: 3.697 MiB.

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