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List of birds of Macquarie Island information


A royal penguin on Macquarie Island.

This is a list of the bird species recorded on Macquarie Island. The avifauna of Macquarie Island include a total of 74 species, of which 6 have been introduced. Of these, 8 species are globally threatened.

The birds of Macquarie Island are, unsurprisingly for an isolated oceanic island, predominantly seabirds. By far the majority of the breeding species are penguins, petrels and albatrosses. However, the bird list includes many vagrants, including passerines, from New Zealand and Australia.

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List of birds of Macquarie Island

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This is a list of the bird species recorded on Macquarie Island. The avifauna of Macquarie Island include a total of 74 species, of which 6 have been...

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Macquarie Island

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Macquarie Island is an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. Regionally part of Oceania and politically...

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Macquarie Island Station

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the island is focused around biology, geosciences, meteorology, and human impact on the environment. Macquarie island birds breed on the island so wildlife...

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List of birds of Australia

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List of birds of Tasmania

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of 383 species of bird have been recorded living in the wild on the island of Tasmania, nearby islands and islands in Bass Strait. Birds of Macquarie...

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Birds of Australia

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List of birds by common name

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List of extinct bird species since 1500

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philippensis macquariensis (Macquarie Islands, Southwest Pacific, 1880s) A subspecies of the buff-banded rail. Raoul Island banded rail, Hypotaenidia philippensis...

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Macquarie shag

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Macquarie Harbour

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Macquarie parakeet

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The Macquarie parakeet (Cyanoramphus erythrotis), also known as the Macquarie Island parakeet, is an extinct parrot from subantarctic Macquarie Island, an...

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Royal penguin

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species of penguin, which can be found only on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and adjacent islands. The International Union for Conservation of Nature...

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List of islands of Australia

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the largest island in Lake Macquarie Rawdon Island, in Hastings River downstream of Wauchope Reedy Island, in Tuross Lake Regatta Island, in Wallis Lake...

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List of bird extinctions by year

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Coues's Gadwall, a duck 1875 Labrador Duck 1879 Bonin Night Heron 1880 Macquarie Island Banded Rail Rodrigues Ring-necked Parakeet 1881 Jamaican Wood Rail...

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Gentoo penguin

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Islands; smaller colonies are found on: Macquarie Island, Heard Islands, Crozet Islands, South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. The total...

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King penguin

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extraction of the oil. The whalers also used penguin oil for lamps, heating and cooking, in addition to eating the birds and their eggs. Macquarie Island currently...

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North Island brown kiwi

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New Zealand Subantarctic Islands

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Snowy albatross

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albatross breeds on South Georgia Island, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Macquarie Island, is seen feeding year-round off...

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Australian white ibis

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after drought drove birds eastwards in the late 1970s, and there were no breeding records in Sydney until the 1980s. The Macquarie Marshes in north-western...

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South Island giant moa

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List of prions

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on islands off of New Zealand and Tristan da Cunha group Pachyptila desolata, Antarctic prion breeds on Crozet Island, Kerguelen Island, Macquarie Island...

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