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Overview

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), often called the Northern Mariana Islands, or just the Northern Marianas 16°42′18″N 145°46′48″E is a group of Pacific islands South of Japan's, Honshu Island and north of Guam.

The Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Programme

Due to the accidental appearance of the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) on Guam between 1945 and 1950, The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands instigated the MAC programme, which started relocating endemic species to zoos or other snake free islands in the CNMI. A total of 8 species from six islands will be relocated by 2034.

Notable Species

Philippine Collared Dove, White Tern, Mariana Kingfisher, Golden White-eye, Bridled White-eye, Micronesian Starling, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Whiskered Tern, White-throated Ground Dove, Micronesian Myzomela, White-tailed Tropicbird, Red-tailed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, Pacific Golden Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Barn Swallow, Red-footed Booby, Mariana Fruit-Dove, Rufous Fantail, Mariana Swiftlet, Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Black Noddy, Common Moorhen, Common Tern, Pacific Reef Heron, Little Egret, Lesser Sand Plover, Whimbrel, Grey-tailed Tattler, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Terek Sandpiper, Little Tern, Rock Dove, Brown Noddy, Black-winged Stilt, Orange-cheeked Waxbill, Black-naped Tern, Yellow Bittern, Saipan Reed Warbler, Common Redshank, Black Drongo, Tinian Monarch, Micronesian Megapode, White-winged Black Tern, Lesser Frigatebird, Oriental Pratincole, Eastern Cattle Egret, Mariana Crow, Peregrine Falcon, Sooty Tern, Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel, Bonin Petrel, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Masked Booby, Pomarine Skua, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Bulwer's Petrel, Long-tailed Skua, Grey-backed Tern, Intermediate Egret, Pectoral Sandpiper, Great White Egret, Great Frigatebird, Rota White-eye, Common Snipe, Striated Heron, Eurasian Wigeon, Abbott's Booby, Common Ringed Plover, Northern Pintail, Tufted Duck, Herring Gull, Sanderling, Wandering Tattler, Great Crested Tern, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Garganey, Pacific Swift, Ruff, Chinese Sparrowhawk, Short-tailed Shearwater, Great Knot, Grey Plover, Red-necked Stint, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Long-billed Dowitcher, Long-toed Stint, Bar-tailed Godwit, Oriental Cuckoo, Swinhoe's Snipe, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Grey Heron, Northern Shoveler, Long-billed Plover, Black-crowned Night Heron, Baer's Pochard, Gadwall, Black-headed Gull, Curlew Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Eurasian Teal, Green-winged Teal, Common Kestrel, Green Sandpiper, White-throated Needletail, Laughing Gull, Common Pochard, Greater Scaup, Tropical Shearwater, Black-winged Petrel, White Wagtail, Osprey, Dollarbird, Far Eastern Curlew, Greater Sand Plover, Little Stint, Dunlin, Black Kite, Slaty-backed Gull, Ashy Minivet, Little Ringed Plover, Eurasian Coot, South Polar Skua, Black-tailed Godwit, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Little Grebe, Temminck's Stint, Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Grey Wagtail, Eastern Buzzard, Arctic Skua, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Christmas Shearwater, Wilson's Storm-Petrel, Streaked Shearwater, Pin-tailed Snipe, Black-tailed Gull, White-necked Petrel, Tristram's Storm-Petrel, Cinnamon Bittern, Laysan Albatross, Bannerman's Shearwater, Little Curlew, Black Bittern, Collared Kingfisher and Guam Rail.

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands

1. https://www.aviary.org/conservation/projects/species-survival-plan/
2. http://www.pacificbirdconservation.org/mariana-avifauna-conservation-program.html
3. https://www.audubon.org/news/the-guam-kingfisher-could-soon-return-wild-after-30-year-absence
4. https://ebird.org/region/MP?yr=all

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