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	Resources on Lord Howe Island Rail academic institutions
		Mathews' 'Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands.' (DjVu
		REVISTA: RUBIES AND SAPPHIRES, LORD HOWE ISLAND, 1/10/91.
		Lord, Philip L. Mills on the Tsatsawassa: A Case...
	www.mongabay.org /conservation/FL/Lord_Howe_Island_Rail.htm (1274 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page : L/LO/LOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lord's Wood is a woodland southeast of the village of Pensford in the Chew Valley, south of Bristol, England.
		The Lords Commissioners are Privy Counsellors appointed by the Monarch of the United Kingdom to exercise, on his or her behalf, certain functions relating to Parliament, including the opening and closing of Parliament, the confirmation of a newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons and the gra..
		Lord Claud was born in 1889, the son of the Duke of Abercorn, and was educated at Wellington College.
	www.alanaditescili.net /browse.php?title=L/LO/LOR (10974 words)

	Lord Howe Island Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Lord Howe Island Rail lives in sub-tropical forests, feeding on worms, crustaceans, fruit, and taking the Egg (biology)s of shearwaters and petrels.
		In the time since its discovery (the island was settled in 1834) the woodhen declined in numbers until 1969, when surveys showed that the bird was down to 20-25 birds, confined to the slopes of Mount Gower.
		The analysis of the threats to the Lord Howe Rail, and the solution, is considered a model for conservation biology.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Endangered-species/Lord-Howe-Island-Rail.html (224 words)

	WWF - Lord Howe-Norfolk Islands Forests - A Global Ecoregion
		The Lord Howe Island woodhen began its decline before the 1850s, probably because they were a popular food source for settlers.
		Endemic to Lord Howe Island are the endangered Lord Howe Island wood rail (Tricholimas sylvestris), Lord Howe rail (Gallirallus sylvestris), and Lord Howe white-eye (Zosterops tephropleurus).
		Endemic to Norfolk Island are Norfolk Island parakeet (Cyanoramphus cookii), and Slender-billed white-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris).
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/lord_howe_norfolk_islands_forests.cfm (294 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Lord Howe Island subtropical forests (AA0109) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lord Howe Island is a crescent-shaped remnant of a volcano that formed almost seven million years ago.
		A species of bat is the only native mammal to inhabit the island, but a great variety of land snails, flies, earthworms, and spiders crawl, slither, and fly in and around its forests.
		Despite a large number of introduced species that harm Lord Howe's biodiversity, goats have recently been eliminated, feral pig numbers are down, and there are ongoing efforts to control rats, mice, and introduced plants.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0109.html (438 words)

	Extinct Bird Species
		Norfolk Island Triller Lalage Leucopyga Leucopyga 1962 Norfolk Is. Sb Ext
		Norfolk Island Starling Aplonis fuscus fuscus 1925 Norfolk Is. Sb Ext
		Norfolk and Lord Howe Island Starling Aplonis fusca 1928 Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands Sp Ext
	www.ornithology.com /extinct.html (2887 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Lord Howe Island subtropical forests (AA0109) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Because most of Lord Howe Island's plants and animals evolved in isolation, the biodiversity of the island is extraordinary.
		Almost half of the island's native plants are endemic.
		The island is home to half the world's population of flesh-footed shearwaters and the greatest concentration of red-tailed tropic birds.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0109.html (438 words)

	Lord Howe Woodhen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lord Howe Island Rail lives in sub-tropical forests, feeding on earthworms, crustaceans, fruit, and taking the eggs of shearwaters and petrels.
		The elimination of the pigs, plus a programme of ex-situ conservation (captive breeding), allowed the Lord Howe Rail to recover its numbers, and there are now at least 200 birds.
		A number of possible causes of the decline were on the island, from introduced rats to Tasmanian Masked Owls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Howe_Woodhen (308 words)

	Lord Howe Island Online Library
		It is strangely reminiscent of events surrounding the issuing of the 1 l/2d Charles Sturt/Lord Howe Island Provisional Stamp of 1930.
		The managers of Lord Howe Island Courier Post wanted to launch their enterprise with the utmost propriety, and included as their philatelic adviser and manager, Dr William Mayo, an authority on the philatelic history of Lord Howe Island, who had acted as a consultant to Norfolk Island, Christmas Island and other unique island postal services.
		Prior to discovery of the Island in 1788 these birds were plentiful, but they became easy pickings for passing ships in search of supplies, and their numbers dwindled perilously close to extinction.
	www.lordhoweisland.info /environ/article3.html (1622 words)

	biology - Lord Howe Island Rail
		The Lord Howe Island Rail, Gallirallus sylvestris, also known as the Lord Howe Rail or the Lord Howe Woodhen, is a flightless bird of the rail family (Rallidae).
		It is endemic to Lord Howe Island off the Australian coast.
		The Lord Howe Island Rail lives in sub-tropical forests, feeding on worms, crustaceans, fruit, and taking the eggs of shearwaters and petrels.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Lord_Howe_Island_Rail (273 words)

	AVIFAUNA - Picchio verde . . . l'altro web site - Birds: DNA Sibley's list, 17 (Non Passeriformes)
		Belitung, Borneo and the Philippine islands of Luzon, Culion, Palawan, Balabac, Mindoro and Mindanao.
		Lord Howe I., apparently restricted to steep summits of Gower and Lidgbird mts.
		Peleng and Sula and Tukangbesi islands; Philippines; Salawati in the w Papuan Is. and adj.
	digilander.libero.it /avifauna/classificazione/classification17.htm (5691 words)

	TerraNature \| New Zealand Ecology - Flightless birds
		In an island environment isolated from the rest of the world for more than 80 million years, and free of mammal predators, a number of birds developed flightlessness and eccentric habits.
		The North Island takahe is extinct, but about 220 of the South Island species continue their dramatic brink of extinction existence.
		The Auckland Island teal (right) and Campbell Island teal which is critically endangered and the world's rarest duck, are both flightless and found only on their respective subantarctic islands.
	www.terranature.org /flightlessBirds.htm (1043 words)

	Lord Howe Island 1997
		Lord Howe Island is 570 km east of New South Wales, Australia (31°33' south, 159°05' east).
		The island is 11 km long, maximum 2.8 km wide, is sub-tropical, and has a highest peak, Mt. Gower 875 m.
		Lord Howe Island Woodhen (Lord Howe Rail Gallirallus sylvestris) Once one of the most endangered species in the world, down to 30 birds, now readily seen.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/LordHowe97.html (526 words)

	Coral Sea Islands
		The Coral Sea Islands Territory was established as a Territory of the Commonwealth in 1969 under theÂ Coral Sea Islands Act 1969.
		The Coral Sea Islands Territory is made up of the islands situated in an area of approximately 780 000 sq km of the Coral Sea extending from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef.
		Elizabeth and Middleton are 150 km north of Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.
	www.dotars.gov.au /territories/coral_sea/index.aspx (201 words)

	The Islands: Howe Island
		Howe Island is located in Lake Ontario, east of Wolfe Island.
		"Howe Island (12 sq mi/31 sq km), SE Ont., Canada, one of the Thousand Isls., in the St. Lawrence, near its outlet from L. Ontario, 8 mi/13 km E of Kingston; 8 mi/13 km long, 3 mi/5 km wide.
		Island became a seperate township from Pittsburgh in 1871.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~theislands/howeisland.html (733 words)

	Surfbirds Birding Trip Report: Lord Howe Island - March 13th -17th 2005
		Lord Howe Woodhen’s frequently develop white patches on the head from about twelve years of age onward.
		The island avifauna totals just 182 species, and of these some 75% are vagrants, a remarkably high proportion, leaving about 40 species as resident or regular visitors.
		The pelagic trip brought incredible views of this delightful diminutive sprite, and I estimated we saw a couple of thousand birds, with the majority around the Pyramid where there were flocks of several hundred fishing or sitting sated on the sea, as well as hundreds on the stacks around the Pyramid.
	www.surfbirds.com /trip_report.php?id=713 (3575 words)

	Lord Howe Island story by a client
		From the mainland, he originally came to Lord Howe Island as the weather man and fell in love with the place.
		Originally from Lord Howe Island, she was one of my childhood idols.
		Emerging from mystical forest into open sunlight and with panoramic views of the lush green island, creamy white sands and the blue green ocean is a memory, hopefully, never to be forgotten.
	www.auswalk.com.au /client-story-lord-howe.html (2238 words)

	Reflections On Suffolk County Pre-History - 1914
		Lord Howe was now in local waters and on Staten Island with the largest military force the British had ever sent out.
		After the disasterous "Battle of Long Island" the American troops were forced into retreat from the Island for the remainder of the War and many Long Island units simply ceased to be - and now retribution was on the "Whigs" by the British and Loyalists for their earlier indignties and perscecutions.
		Many who had fought in the disastrous Battle of Long Island had nothing for it, when once the invaders were established in the Island, but to return to their homes and families and submit to the inevitable.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /reflections.html (13022 words)

	rallidae
		Lord Howe Island Rail, Gallirallus sylvestris, Râle sylvestre
		Plumbeous Rail, Pardirallus sanguinolentus, Râle à bec ensanglanté
		Rarely seen and little known, the 145 species of the secretive rail family occupy a wide range of habitats, from forests and wetlands to grasslands and even scrub-covered remote oceanic islands and coral cays.
	www.oiseaux.net /liste/birds.rallidae.html (728 words)

	Table 2
		An isolated population restricted to Isle Royale, and island in Lake Superior.
		An island population (west Scotland) declining due to culling pressure.
		A small, ground-dwelling, flightless rail endemic to the island, east of Australia.
	www.ecologyandsociety.org /vol4/iss1/art6/table2.html (105 words)

	Australian bird list - section 2
		Cranes, Rails and Bustards -- Shorebirds and Gulls
		It is based on 'The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories' by Leslie Christidis and Walter E. Boles (1994.
		If a species occurs on the mainland (not as a vagrant) and also on an island territory, it is not listed with a superscript.
	www.amonline.net.au /birds/stuff/bird_list02.htm (235 words)

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		Pachycephala pectoralis contempta (Lord Howe Golden Whistler) endemic subspecies Strepera graculina crissalis (Lord Howe Pied Currawong) endemic subspecies, Endangered (RDB), 30-50 remained in 1974.
		Long narrow island (5 by 35 km), undulating plateau at 200-300 m consisting of an eroded horst volcanic block of Miocene/Pliocene age, formerly glaciated, now no permanent ice; coastal cliffs; several lakes; gravelly loam soils on plateau, acid peat soils elsewhere
		Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata (Norfolk Island Boobook owl) endemic subspecies, Endangered, only one remaining bird, a female (1989) [2 male New Zealand Morepork Owls introduced as possible mate in 1987] Turdus poliocephalus poliocephalus (Gray-headed Blackbird, Island Thrush) endemic subspecies, Endangered (RDB), less than 50 on Mt. Pitt in 1969, a couple of birds seen in 1989.
	islands.unep.ch /IJA.htm (600 words)

	February 1999 - Lord Howe Island
		Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island with Australian Ornithological Services led by Phil and Tricia Maher and 5 other participants.
		We flew from Norfolk Island airport to Lord Howe Island on a small 10 seater plane on Tasman Airlines (flight time about 2 hours), and departed on a Qantas subsidiary.
		A few appeared to be breeding on Muttonbird Island and Balls Pyramid, and probably at North Bay.
	birdingwa.iinet.net.au /trips/tr199902.htm (2204 words)

	TerraNature \| New Zealand Ecology - Extinct birds
		The prominent extinction groups are all 14 moas, 11 rails, 6 wrens and both eagles.
		In the early 1900s, South Island kokako were abundant on the main island and Stewart Island.
		The population must have started to decline after pigs were introduced to the islands in 1807, and cats in 1820.
	www.terranature.org /extinctBirds.htm (1373 words)

	Extinct Australian animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White-throated Pigeon (Lord Howe Island), Lord Howe Pigeon
		Red-crowned Parakeet (Lord Howe Island), Lord Howe Parakeet
		Southern Boobook (Lord Howe Island), Lord Howe Boobook Owl
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extinct_Australian_animals (250 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		VARIOUS are the names required to distinguish the little slate-colored Carolina Rail from its brethern, Sora, Common Rail, and, on the Potomac river, Ortolan, being among them.
		He is found throughout temperate North America, in the weedy swamps of the Atlantic states in great abundance, in the Middle states, and in California...
		This flightless bird is found primarily in the northern and eastern portions of the island.
	www.fatbirder.com /species_and_families/non_passerines/rallidae.html (873 words)

	Extinct species
		Anas (platyrhynchos) oustaletti (Marianas Mallard) was endemic to the Mariana islands of Guam, Tinian and Saipan (to U.S.A.)
		Turnix (varia) novaecaledoniae is known from the type in the British Museum, collected on New Caledonia (to France) and described by Ogilvie-Grant in 1889, from a reported 1911 specimen taken by Sarasin, from various reports (including one that T.
		In 1918, Black rats Rattus rattus colonized the island from a shipwreck, causing the taxon to decline to rarity by 1924
	www.birdlife.org /datazone/species/terms/extinct.html (1576 words)

	Norfolk Island
		Norfolk Island is a self governing Australian Territory situated in the South Pacific approximately 1,600km north-east of Sydney, 900 km north-east of Lord Howe Island and 1,100km north-west of Auckland.
		Information about the government of Norfolk Island is located here.
		If you are planning to travel to Norfolk Island, click here to find visitor information.
	www.dotars.gov.au /territories/norfolk_island (135 words)

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