Rapa nui bird checklist (What's left, what's been introduced)

[urbpan]

(English name, Scientific name, rapanui name; My checklist has the Chilean name as well, but it didn't paste right into the journal)



Sooty Tern -- Sterna fuscata -- manutara
Great Frigate Bird -- Fregata minor -- makohe
Chimango Caracara -- Milvago chimango -- manu toketoke
Chilean Tinamou -- Nothoprocta perdicaria -- vivi
Common Diuca-Finch -- Diuca diuca -- manu puhi
House Sparrow -- Passer domesticus -- manu riki-riki
Christmas Shearwater -- Puffinus navitatus -- kuma
Petrel Pterodroma sp. -- Pterodroma sp.
Giant Petrel -- Macronectes giganteus -- ruru
Fairy Tern -- Gygis alba -- kiakia
Red-tailed Tropicbird -- Phaeton rubicaudata -- tavake
Brown Noddy -- Anous stolidus -- tuao
Blue Noddy -- Procelsterna cerulea -- tavi

Comments

[artemii.livejournal.com]

i think maybe i'm too late? regardless, anything would be interesting to me! i love travel photos in general and just a couple weeks ago i read a novel set in rapa nui in particular, talking about both the present and the history.