'Climate change associated with local extinction in peripheral populations of the threatened Italian endemic plant Santolina etrusca (Asteraceae)'
A new Report published as FirstView in #EnvironmentalConservation
#Conservation #endemics #plants 🌍 🌐
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Black-necked Weaver, #BwindiImpenetrableforest #Ruhija #AlbertineRift #endemics #Uganda #montaneforests #birdsofafrica #birdsseenin2026 #blackneckedweavers #birds #birdphotography #wildbirdphotography #biodiversity #conservationphotography markscheflen.com #birdsofeastafrica
Purple-breasted Sunbird (rare) can be found in #BwindiImpenetrableforest #Ruhija #AlbertineRift #endemics #uganda #DRC #Burundi #montaneforests #birdsofafrica #birdsseenin2026 #purplebreastedsunbirds #birds #bird #birdphotography #wildbirdphotography #biodiversity markscheflen.com
Berthelot's Pipit, a small pale brown songbird with a sharp bill and fairly long tail, perched on a rock.
#BrownIsBeautiful is today's #birdoftheday theme, which gives me a great excuse to post this delightful Berthelot's Pipit from #GranCanaria. I only encountered a couple of these #Canaryislands #endemics during my week here at the start of January.
#birds #birding #birdsSeenIn2026
For almost 40 years, plants in this small Ligurian Apennine area, between Passo del Turchino (588 m) and Bric del Dente (1109 m), were identified as Tephroseris balbisiana (DC.) Holub, an endemic of the Ligurian & Maritime Alps (France & Italy).
#AlpineFlora #Endemics #Botany 2/9
A new flora overview of the National Wetland Park in the Jimunai Alpine Periglacial Zone (Xinjiang, China) reports 158 additional #species, 45 genera and two families, including 20 rare and endangered species, four Xinjiang #endemics and 23 #taxa newly recorded for the area: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#Birding the islands of #SaoTomeandPrincipe 180sp, 65sp/8days incl. all 27 #endemics — more endemics/km2 than anywhere on 🌍; key areas on #SaoTome: Monte Carmo & Lagoa Amelia; on #Principe: Bela Vista above Santo Antonio, 📷 #RocaSundy Hotel & S. forests, Ilhas Tinhosas for seabirds; Jun–Aug Dec–Jan🌴
#Birding #PNG 904sp, 118 #endemics (1/3 in the mainland), 35 BoPs; lowlands: #Varirata NP by Port Moresby, #KwatuLodge by Kiunga; highlands: community owned #KumulLodge @ 2800m asl (230sp/3BoPs) & #RondonRidgeLodge 2100m (200sp/10BoPs) @ #MtHagen , 📷 #AmbuaLodge 2000m (280sp/13BoPs) in Tari; May-Sep
#Birding the volcanic island of #NewBritain, #PNG, 75sp/5days, for Bismarck & New Britain #endemics incl. Bismarck Pitta, Golden Masked Owl, Blue-eyed Cockatoo, Melanesian Megapode, Black-capped Paradise Kingfisher, Finsch's Imperial, &Nicobar Pigeon; single-base #WalindiResort in Kimbe Bay; May-Sep
#CocosIsland is a volcanic 24 km2 island, a #CostaRica n National Park shrouded in 2 main vegetation types: tropical rainforest & tropical cloud forest. Inhabited by 181 bird species, of which 3 are found nowhere else on Earth
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#birding 🐦🐦🐦 #endemics #BirdBooks 📚
“Guide to the #Birds of #CocosIsland” by Arias & Montoya may technically be a book, but in reality, it is a treasure island map leading you to a certain spot in the Pacific Ocean, 550 km off the coast of #CostaRica
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#birding 🐦🐦🐦 #endemics #BirdBook #fieldguide 📚
#Birding 130 million year old #DanumValley rainforest #Borneo #Malaysia 📷 #BorneoRainforestLodge 340sp, #endemics Bornean Crested Fireback, Black-crowned, Blue-banded &Blue-headed Pittas, White-fronted Falconet, B. Bristlehead, Black-throated &B. Wren-babblers,🦧🐘; 3hr drive from #LahadDatu✈️; Jul-Sep
#Birding #Malaysia #Borneo #Sabah 450sp/60 #endemics, 200sp/2weeks: 📷 #MountKinabalu 320sp/17 endemics; 📷 #Sepilok Orangutan rehabilitation sanctuary &the #Kinabatangan River 200sp/8 hornbills, #SukauRainforestLodge; #UtanRainforestLodge & #DanumValley 300sp/6 pittas, #BorneoRainforestLodge; Apr-Sep
#Birding #Cyprus 407 sp. 150sp/week, 3 #endemics + Cretzschmar’s Bunting, Finsch’s Wheatear, Rüppell’s Warbler, Bimaculated Lark; Agia Varvara, Mandria, #Akrotiri Salt Lake, Pegeia & the #BathsofAphrodite, #Paphos headland; single-base #Akamas Peninsula, 📷Aphrodite Beach Hotel; late MAR—mid-Apr, Sep
#Birding the Estrella Fluvial del #Inirida, a Ramsar wetland of E #Colombia where the Amazon rainforest merges with flooded savannas of the Orinoco Basin: #Mavecure monoliths, varzea forest + #GuiananShield sp, big blocks of white sand forest + associated #endemics 🦜
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#Birding #Uganda 1,060sp, 24 Albertine #endemics, 400sp/2weeks: 📷 #Mabamba; #LakeMburo; #Bwindi (350sp) for montane & #Kibale (375sp,📷 #CraterSafariLodge) 4 lowland forest sp; #Semuliki (440sp) 4 Guinea-Congo sp; #QENP (610sp) & #MFNP (450sp) 4 savanna sp; Jan-Feb (over 200sp/day possible), Jun-Jul
#Birding #Kenya 1,160 sp., 11 #endemics, over a 100 sp. in a day possible @ several spots, over 450sp/2weeks: #MountKenya (📷 #AberdareCountryClub), #Samburu, 🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩-filled #LakeNakuru (500 sp., 📷 #LakeNakuruSopaLodge), #LakeBaringo, #Kakamega Forest, #MaasaiMara wildebeests (500 sp.); Apr–May, Nov
#Birding #Tanzania 1,130 sp. (33 #endemics, Fischer’s & YC Lovebirds); the northern circuit – #ArushaNationalPark, #LarkPlains, #Tarangire, #LakeManyara, #Ngorongoro Crater (500 sp., 📷 #NgorongoroSopaLodge), #Serengeti – offers 450 bird and 50 mammal species in 2 weeks; the best timing Apr, Sep–Oct
Top 15 Countries by Endemic Bird Species I thought this would be an easy post to prepare – just...
#Lists #Countries #endemics
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Top 15 Countries by Endemic Bird Species I thought this would be an easy post to prepare – just...
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#Birding #CostaRica 🦜 941sp, 4 mainland #endemics, plus 47 near-endemics shared with Panama & Nicaraqua, 350sp/2weeks, 488sp on an 8-day bird race in Oct2017, 600sp/month; 500+ sp. 🦜 #RanchoNaturalista, #ArenalObservatoryLodge, Braulio Carrillo NP, La Selva; Dec-Mar, shoulder seasons Aug-Nov Feb-May
#Endemism #birding – tiny regions with large number of #endemics, the best known are #Hispaniola #Ecuador #Madagascar #Luzon #Mindanao, the highlands of #China, #Sulawesi #NewGuinea #NewCaledonia
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#BigYear #seetheunseen #birdwatching
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Noah Strycker opted for these areas when #birding the 🌎. Compared with the #endemics map—fairly well-balanced approach. I wonder is it really necessary to visit so many areas in South America? Pity, yet understandably, Venezuela was skipped, while Cameroon turned out to be a waste of time
#BigYear
These were the countries Arjan Dwarshuis considered to offer the best #birding in the world. Understandably the Bird Continent is covered (more than) well yet, compared with the #endemics map, there's insufficient coverage of both Africa (crucial Madagascar) and Asia (e.g. China)
#BigYear
935 bird sp. in just 50,000 sq km of #CostaRica, possible to record over 500 in 2 weeks & nearly 600/3, including up to 80 Central American #endemics. Look out for Sunbittern, Scarlet Macaw, 50 hummingbirds, Resplendent Quetzal, 7 trogons, Turquoise-browed Motmot
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#Birds of #Japan covers 740sp.; incl. 30 #endemics or near-endemics. Regular species ranges are shown in 550 distribution maps. With the book you get a coded card so you could download a checklist with full taxonomy
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