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Réunion harrier

Index Réunion harrier

The Réunion harrier or Réunion marsh harrier (Circus maillardi) is a bird of prey belonging to the marsh harrier group of harriers. [1]

31 relations: Alfred Newton, Bird of prey, BirdLife International, Comoro Islands, Endangered species, Hans Friedrich Gadow, Harrier (bird), Important Bird Area, Indian Ocean, James Greenway, Jules Verreaux, Madagascar, Malagasy harrier, Marsh harrier, Mauritius, Metacarpal bones, Mouse, Mouth of the Cirque de Salazie Important Bird Area, Pied harrier, Rat, Ravine de la Grande Chaloupe Important Bird Area, Réunion, Rivière des Marsouins – Grand Étang Important Bird Area, Rivière des Remparts – Rivière Langevin Important Bird Area, Rodenticide, Subspecies, Sugarcane, Tarsometatarsus, Tarsus (skeleton), Tenrec, Tibia.

Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton FRS HFRSE (11 June 18297 June 1907) was an English zoologist and ornithologist.

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Bird of prey

A bird of prey, predatory bird, or raptor is any of several species of bird that hunts and feeds on rodents and other animals.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

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Comoro Islands

The Comoro Islands or Comoros (Shikomori Komori; جزر القمر, Juzur al-Qamar; French Les Comores) form an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the south-east coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and north-west of Madagascar.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Hans Friedrich Gadow

Hans Friedrich Gadow (8 March 1855 – 16 May 1928) was a German ornithologist.

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Harrier (bird)

A harrier is any of the several species of diurnal hawks sometimes placed in the Circinae sub-family of the Accipitridae family of birds of prey.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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James Greenway

James Cowan Greenway (7 April 1903 – 10 June 1989) was an American ornithologist.

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Jules Verreaux

Jules Pierre Verreaux (24 August 1807 – 7 September 1873) was a French botanist and ornithologist and a professional collector of and trader in natural history specimens.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Malagasy harrier

The Malagasy harrier (Circus macrosceles) is a bird of prey belonging to the marsh harrier group of harriers.

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Marsh harrier

The marsh harriers are birds of prey of the harrier subfamily.

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Mauritius

Mauritius (or; Maurice), officially the Republic of Mauritius (République de Maurice), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent.

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Metacarpal bones

In human anatomy, the metacarpal bones or metacarpus, form the intermediate part of the skeletal hand located between the phalanges of the fingers and the carpal bones of the wrist which forms the connection to the forearm.

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Mouse

A mouse (Mus), plural mice, is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.

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Mouth of the Cirque de Salazie Important Bird Area

Mouth of the Cirque de Salazie Important Bird Area is a 1780 ha tract of land on the island of Réunion, a French territory in the western Indian Ocean.

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Pied harrier

The pied harrier (Circus melanoleucos) is an Asian species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Rat

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents in the superfamily Muroidea.

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Ravine de la Grande Chaloupe Important Bird Area

Ravine de la Grande Chaloupe Important Bird Area is an 825 ha tract of land on the island of Réunion, a French territory in the western Indian Ocean.

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Réunion

Réunion (La Réunion,; previously Île Bourbon) is an island and region of France in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius.

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Rivière des Marsouins – Grand Étang Important Bird Area

Rivière des Marsouins – Grand Étang Important Bird Area is an 1800 ha tract of land on the island of Réunion, a French territory in the western Indian Ocean.

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Rivière des Remparts – Rivière Langevin Important Bird Area

Rivière des Remparts – Rivière Langevin Important Bird Area (IBA) is a 7000 ha tract of land on the island of Réunion, a French territory in the western Indian Ocean.

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Rodenticide

Rodenticides, colloquially rat poison, are typically non-specific pest control chemicals made and sold for the purpose of killing rodents.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Tarsometatarsus

The tarsometatarsus is a bone that is only found in the lower leg of birds and certain non-avian dinosaurs.

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Tarsus (skeleton)

The tarsus is a cluster of seven articulating bones in each foot situated between the lower end of tibia and fibula of the lower leg and the metatarsus.

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Tenrec

A tenrec is any species of mammal within the family Tenrecidae, found on Madagascar and in parts of the African mainland.

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Tibia

The tibia (plural tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia), and it connects the knee with the ankle bones.

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Redirects here:

Astur alphonsi, Circus alphonsi, Circus maillardi, Reunion Harrier, Reunion harrier, Réunion Harrier.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Réunion_harrier

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