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Western Samoa

Common Noddy Anous stolidus © Tom Tarrant http://www.aviceda.org/

There are only 34 species of land birds, of which 14 are endemic, including such forms as the famous tooth-billed pigeon, fruit doves, kingfishers, and white-eye. So says one guide - but this refers to Samoa as a whole rather than just Western Samoa...

numbers

Number of bird species:78

useful reading

A Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Wallis & Futuna

By Dick Watling Hard Cover; 16 Full Colour Plates; Figures, Tables & Maps; 272 pages.
ISBN: 9829030040
Buy this book from NHBS.com

useful information

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clubs

le Siosiomaga Society Inc.

le Siosiomaga Society Inc.P0 Box 5774, Matautu WESTERN SAMOA. + 685 21993; ngo.fiiosiomaga@samos.net

reserves

Wetlands

http://www.wetlands.org/
There are six main wetland communities in Western Samoa, distinguished from each other by floristic, physiognomic and geographical differences. Three of these communities, coastal marsh, montane marsh and montane bog, are dominated by herbaceous species; the other three, mangrove scrub, mangrove forest and swamp forest, are dominated by woody trees. Of the two main islands of Western Samoa, Upolu is the older and possesses the most wetland areas, especially herbaceous marshes in low-lying coastal basins which are separated from the sea by a sand barrier and lack a stream outlet. This absence of a stream outlet restricts the growth of mangroves in these areas...

trip reports

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The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

1996 [July] - Peter Lonsdale

http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/tripreports/Samoa96.html
...The short list of Samoan landbirds includes a few cosmopolitan spp (eg. Barn Owl); many found also in Tonga and Fiji (where I birded last year); and my special targets, 10 endemic spp. All 10 are members of Tonga/Fiji genera except for the rare Tooth-Billed Pigeon. In my short visit I missed the Samoan White-eye (present only on the unvisited island of Savaii); the T-B Pigeon and the shy Mao honeycreeper (both probably more common on the less populous Savaii)...

1999 [April] - Peter Lonsdale - Upolu

http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/tripreports/Upolu99.html
...This note is really an addendum to a trip report I posted to Birdchat a couple of years ago, describing 24 hours near the town of Apia on the Western Samoan island of Upolu...

2000 [November] - Craig Faanes - American Samoa and Western Samoa

http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/tripreports/Samoa00.html
...I walked to the entrance of the National Park of Samoa where I found Cardinal Myzomela (endemic) for my first life bird of the trip. Listening to its voice I was reminded of the rusty hinge calls of the I`iwi on Hawaii. I guess cousins sound similar even when they`ve been separated by thousands of years of evolution. The forest here was surprisingly dead for bird voices. An occasional White-tailed Tropicbird sailed overhead making it a little more exciting...

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