Eiao Marquesan warbler
Eiao Marquesan warbler | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Acrocephalidae |
Genus: | Acrocephalus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | A. p. aquilonis
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Trinomial name | |
Acrocephalus percernis aquilonis |
The Eiao Marquesan warbler (Acrocephalus percernis aquilonis) is a subspecies of the northern Marquesan reed warbler found only in the dry upland forest on Eiao in the northern Marquesas Islands.
The species comprises several different races, each of which occupies a variety of forest or
bushland
habitats.
Because of extensive
extinct
.
The total population was estimated at approximately 100-200 individuals in 1987.
See also
- Eiao Island Nature Reserve
- French Polynesia
- Marquesas zoology
References
- ^ Murphy, Robert Cushman; mathews, Gregory M. (1928). "BIRDS COLLECTED DURING THE WHITNEY SOUTH SEA EXPEDITION. V." (PDF). American Museum Novitates (337): 17. Retrieved 30 September 2022.