Wildlife
Nightingale Island is known as a breeding ground for various types of seabirds; over a million birds are estimated to breed on the island, with Great Shearwaters being among the most abundant. There are four wetland areas on the island which each contain hundreds of Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses. As with Inaccessible Island, Nightingale also has a breeding colony of Northern Rockhopper Penguins, now an endangered species, with a fraction the 1950s population remaining. The island is part of the Nightingale Islands group Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International as a breeding site for seabirds and endemic landbirds.
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