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Mount Tomanivi on the island of Viti Levu Topography. Tomanivi contains a significant proportion of the highest-altitude montane forest in Fiji. This is an important habitat for birds and other biodiversity. A 17,500 hectares (43,000 acres) area covering the slopes of Tomanivi is the Greater Tomaniivi Important Bird Area.
Vitirallus watlingi, the Fiji rail or Viti Levu rail, was a prehistoric flightless bird from Fiji, and is the only species in the genus Vitirallus. Vitirallus watlingi is thought to have been about the same size as the bar-winged rail ( Nesoclopeus poecilopterus ) but with a very elongated and slender bill.
Andrée Clark Bird Refuge, a 42-acre (170,000 m 2) saltwater marsh, is one of the largest wildlife refuges in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. [1] The refuge has a 29-acre (120,000 m 2 ) freshwater / brackish lake, an artificially modified estuary , which drains through East Beach into the Pacific Ocean.
The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California is one of the great remnants of a historically bountiful wintering grounds for migratory waterfowl on the Pacific Flyway.
This bird has been found on the islands of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Taveuni and Ovalau. Ten specimens were collected in 1923, but it was last recorded in 1993, although it may also have been seen on Mount Tomanivi on Viti Levu in 2001. A search of Viti Levu in 2001-2 failed to find any birds, as did a second series of surveys in 2003.
A 40,700 hectares (101,000 acres) area covering the basin is the Sovi Basin Important Bird Area. This area supports the largest protected populations of many of Fiji's restricted-range species, including the endangered Long-legged thicketbird , the vulnerable Pink-billed parrotfinch and Shy Ground-dove , and the near threatened Masked shining ...
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The yellow-throated Fiji whistler was formally described in 1866 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub based on a specimen collected on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. He coined the binomial name Pachycephala graeffii where the specific epithet was chosen to honour the Swiss naturalist Eduard Heinrich Graeffe. [1] [2] [3]