Wake Island is an atoll between Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands that is actually three coral islands (Wake, Wilkes, and Peale) that have formed over an undersea volcano and enclose a shallow lagoon. In the period 1941-1945 the island was occupied by the Japanese. The only endemic bird species, the Wake Island Rail, became during this period extinct; presumably, along with other bird species, it was only regarded as food. The island is endangered by occasional typhoons. Wake has no permanent residents and no tourist infrastructure, but apparently great strategic importance.
Wake Island is located in the Pacific Ocean. Legally Wake Island belongs to USA.
This E-book bird guide for "Wake 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.
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Cover image Wake Island Rail, Drawing: W.J.Daunicht
Primary language English, secondary languages German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
All 75 species are illustrated. In addition, links to HD videos of 15 bird species (11m 16s) and audios of 3 bird species (3m 33s) 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: 39 pages, 6.622 MiB.
ePub E-book in flowable format for all devices with ePub reader: 5.54 MiB.
© Wolfgang J. Daunicht 2024
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