List Of Birds Of Madagascar
Madagascar is an island nation located off the southeastern coast of Africa. Because of its long separation from neighboring continents—through tectonic movement, it split from Africa about 160 million years ago, and from India around 90 million years ago—it contains many species endemic to the island. Of the 294 bird species recorded on Madagascar, 105 are found nowhere else on earth, and a handful of others are shared only with the neighbouring Comoro Islands.
This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families, and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of Clements's 6th edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflects this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for Madagascar.
Species status comments are taken from Morris and Hawkins' Birds of Madagascar: A Photographic Guide unless otherwise noted. The IUCN Red List codes are those given by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources; they come from the IUCN's Red List website.
Read more about List Of Birds Of Madagascar: Table Legend, Ducks and Geese, Guineafowl, Partridges and Quails, Grebes, Flamingos, Penguins, Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Petrels, Storm Petrels, Tropicbirds, Boobies and Gannets, Pelicans, Cormorants, Darters, Frigatebirds, Bitterns, Herons and Egrets, Ibises and Spoonbills, Hamerkop, Storks, Osprey, Hawks, Kites and Eagles, Falcons, Mesites, Rails, Crakes, Gallinules, and Coots, Plovers, Crab-plover, Avocets and Stilts, Jacanas, Sandpipers and Allies, Buttonquails, Pratincoles, Painted Snipe, Gulls, Terns, Skuas, Sandgrouse, Pigeons and Doves, Parrots and Allies, Cuckoos, Barn Owls, Typical Owls, Nightjars, Swifts, Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Typical Rollers, Ground-rollers, Cuckoo-roller, Hoopoes, Asities, Wattle-eyes, Vangas, Cuckoo-shrikes, Old World Orioles, Drongos, Monarch Flycatchers, Crows, Larks, Swallows and Martins, Bulbuls, Cisticolas, Old World Warblers, Old World Flycatchers, Babblers, Starlings, Sunbirds, Wagtails, Sparrows, White-eyes, Weavers and Allies, Waxbills and Allies
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list and/or birds:
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be inquisitive or passive? Are they afraid to challenge authority and to question assumptions? Do they feel comfortable adapting to change? Are they easily discouraged if they cannot arrive at a solution to a problem? The answers to those questions will give you a better appraisal of their education than any list of courses, grades, or test scores.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“The birds that came to it through the air
At broken windows flew out and in,
Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh
From too much dwelling on what has been.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)