Rodrigues warbler

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Rodrigues warbler

Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acrocephalidae
Genus: Acrocephalus
Species:
A. rodericanus
Binomial name
Acrocephalus rodericanus
(A. Newton, 1865)
Synonyms

Bebrornis rodericanus (Newton, 1865)

The Rodrigues warbler (Acrocephalus rodericanus) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Acrocephalidae.

It is found only on the island of Rodrigues (which belongs to Mauritius) and used to be plentiful there. Their population soon got smaller. Cyclone Monique in 1968 almost wiped out the entire species.[2] Then a cyclone in 1979 reduced the population even more.[citation needed] The main threats to these birds is the destruction of vegetation for fuel or grazing, rats, and cyclones (natural disasters).

It was considered extinct in the 1960s, but was rediscovered in the 1970s.[3]

Its natural

tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and plantations
.

It is threatened by

habitat loss
.

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