Wilkins's finch

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Wilkins's finch
File:Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.AVES.14570 - Nesospiza wilkinsi wilkinsi Lowe, P.R. , 1923 - Emberizidae - skin specimen.jpeg
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Nesospiza
Species:
N. wilkinsi
Binomial name
Nesospiza wilkinsi
Lowe, 1923
File:Nesospiza wilkinsi map.svg

Wilkins's Bunting (Nesospiza wilkinsi), also known as the grosbeak bunting, is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is restricted to Inaccessible Island (subspecies dunnei) and Nightingale Island (nominate wilkinsi) of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland and subantarctic grassland. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Australian polar explorer and ornithologist Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins.[2]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2021). "Nesospiza wilkinsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22735949A200062503. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 367.

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