Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2016 11:36:37 GMT
Name: Gough Bunting (Rowettia goughensis)
Range: Gough Island, St Helena
Habitat: Temperate shrubland and subantarctic grassland
Description: The male has a more or less uniformly olive-green colouration, which is slightly paler on its underparts, this colouration is disrupted only by the yellowish plumage of the forehead and eyebrow, and the prominent black ‘bib’ just below the thick-based, pointed black bill. The females lack the black bib and juveniles, by contrast, possess a buff-olive plumage, heavily streaked above and below with dark brown.
Size: 18cm
Diet: up to 80% of the diet of the Gough Bunting is made up of small invertebrates, the remainder of the diet includes fruit, grass seeds, scavanged birds and broken eggs.
IUCN Rating: Critically Endangered
Threats: The principle threat to this species is that introduced predators stand a very good chance of wiping it out because it is confined to one small island. The IUCN has now classified this species as being critically endangered because the house mouse has been introduced to the island and unfortunately the house mouse is known to damage eggs.
For further information please follow the links below:
www.arkive.org/gough-bunting/rowettia-goughensis/#ref2
www.iucnredlist.org/details/22723149/0
Range: Gough Island, St Helena
Habitat: Temperate shrubland and subantarctic grassland
Description: The male has a more or less uniformly olive-green colouration, which is slightly paler on its underparts, this colouration is disrupted only by the yellowish plumage of the forehead and eyebrow, and the prominent black ‘bib’ just below the thick-based, pointed black bill. The females lack the black bib and juveniles, by contrast, possess a buff-olive plumage, heavily streaked above and below with dark brown.
Size: 18cm
Diet: up to 80% of the diet of the Gough Bunting is made up of small invertebrates, the remainder of the diet includes fruit, grass seeds, scavanged birds and broken eggs.
IUCN Rating: Critically Endangered
Threats: The principle threat to this species is that introduced predators stand a very good chance of wiping it out because it is confined to one small island. The IUCN has now classified this species as being critically endangered because the house mouse has been introduced to the island and unfortunately the house mouse is known to damage eggs.
For further information please follow the links below:
www.arkive.org/gough-bunting/rowettia-goughensis/#ref2
www.iucnredlist.org/details/22723149/0