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The wildlife of Christmas Island is composed of the flora and fauna of this isolated island in the tropical Indian Ocean. Christmas Island is the summit plateau of an underwater volcano. It is mostly clad in tropical rainforest and has karst , cliffs, wetlands, coasts and sea.
The birds of Christmas Island form a heterogeneous group of 162 species. There is a core group of four endemics that evolved on the remote island in the eastern Indian Ocean for thousands of years; there are also regular migrants, opportunists and occasional visitors.
It is also known as the starry-eye parrotfish, stareye parrotfish, bucktooth parrotfish, Christmas parrotfish or marbled parrotfish. Since the Calotomus carolinus is known across the Pacific, it also has its own name in many native languages for example, it is called a panuhunuhunu in the Hawaiian language.
The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is located approximately 350 kilometres (190 nautical miles) south of Java and Sumatra and about 1,550 km (840 nmi) north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland .
Southern New Guinea, the Aru Islands, coast of West Papua, and the Raja Ampat Islands: Geelvink pygmy parrot: M. geelvinkiana (Schlegel, 1871) i NT: Biak-Supiori and Numfor (islands of the Baik Island) Meek's pygmy parrot: M. meeki Rothschild and Hartert, 1914: LC: Admiralty Islands and the St Matthias Islands: Finsch's pygmy parrot: M ...
In the Pacific, populations can be found in the Galapagos Islands, mostly on Genovesa and San Cristobal [11] and in Hawaii, on Kauai. [12] In the Indian Ocean, it is found on Aldabra, the Seychelles, Rodrigues, the Maldives, the Chagos Archipelago, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Christmas Island. [13]
Found on Boatswain Bird Island just off Ascension Island in the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having not bred on the main island since the 1800s. [38] Christmas frigatebird (Fregata andrewsi) Mathews, 1914: The adult male is one of the frigatebird species with white on its belly—an egg shaped patch.
Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines (/ ˈ s ɪ t ə s aɪ n z /), [1] [2] are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet. [a] They are classified in four families that contain roughly 410 species in 101 genera, found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions.