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Nuku Hiva Monarch - BirdForum Opus

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Pomarea nukuhivae

Identification

Distribution

Formerly endemic to Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands.
Last recorded in the 1930s.

Taxonomy

This was a monotypic species.
Formerly considered conspecific with Marquesan Monarch.

Habitat

Presumed to have preferred lowland forest in the past.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
  3. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2006. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553064

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