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Seychelles | May 12, 2019, Sunday @ 11:00 in Environment » SPECIES | By: Betymie Bonnelame | Views: 1234
(Seychelles News Agency) - The
discovery of a new nest of the Seychelles’ critically endangered bird, the
paradise flycatcher, in an unusual tree is a positive sign that the species is
recovering, said the Seychelles National Parks Authority (SNPA).
For the
first time, a new nest built by a pair of paradise flycatchers, known as veuve,
was spotted in a morinda citrifolia tree (bwa torti in Creole) which produces
the noni fruit in the Veuve Special Reserve on La Digue, the third-most populated
island.
According
to SNPA ranger Josianna Rose, the discovery will have major ramifications for
conservation practice of the paradise flycatcher.
“It’s a
major positive since it widens the habitat potential for the veuve. We can now
add more bwa torti in the reserve, and at about two metres from the ground
level, they will be more accessible for us to monitor,” she said.
Flycatchers
typically nest more commonly in takamaka and badamier trees which are seen in
plenty in the Veuve Reserve’s coastal woodlands, as well as bwa kafoul and bwa
blan.
Rose said
that as the species is clawing back from the brink of extinction, nesting and
breeding patterns have to be closely monitored to ensure the environment is as
favourable as possible toward its recovery.
The
paradise flycatchers found only in Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the
western Indian Ocean, are currently on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) list of critically endangered species. This
species has an extremely small range and probably only one viable population
persisting on an island where there has been a continuing decline in habitat.
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