The Birds of Samoa

Abstract

This book is meant primarily to serve as a tool for the science and conservation of Samoan birds. Teachers, students, government workers, tourists, and visitors interested in Samoan wildlife should be able to benefit from what is being provided here. More than 325 colour photographs have been included, from bird studies during 1975 and 2015, mostly by the authors. All endemic bird species are illustrated and discussed, many of them for the first time. Land birds of this remote chain of islands, including the rare Tooth-billed Pigeo and the Mao-Honeyeater, are listed and described. Numerous spectrograms convey an idea of how the songs of Samoan land birds can be identified.