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Titre :	Migrant and vagrant birds of Europa Island (southern Mozambique Channel)
Auteurs :	M. Le Corre, Auteur ; J. M. Probst, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Ostrich (68(1) MAR 1997)
Article en page(s) :	13-18
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Thirty non-breeding bird species have been identified on Europa Island. Twenty-two species are new records for the island. The most common migrants are six species of Palearctic shorebirds, and the Subantarctic Skua. Seven other species of Palearctic migrants and two species originating from Africa or Madagascar have been recorded more than once but in very low numbers. Finally, 15 species among which 8 are land birds have been recorded only once on Europa, between March 1993 and April 1996. These results are discussed and compared with other data from Madagascar and other oceanic islands of the Malagasy Region. Most species mentioned on Europa are regular migrants, accidental vagrants or breeding species of Madagascar or other oceanic islands. However eight species have never been recorded in Madagascar and two of these species have never been recorded on any other oceanic island of the area.

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