Seabirds and Shorebirds

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About NatureFiji-MareqetiViti

NatureFiji-MareqetiViti is the membership-based working arm of the Fiji Nature Conservation Trust, registered under the Charitable Trust Act (Cap 67) in June 2007. Registered Charitable Trust #817.

What We Do The mission statement of the Fiji Nature Conservation Trust is: “to enhance biodiversity and habitat conservation, endangered species protection and sustainable use of natural resources of the Fiji Islands for the benefit of communities and the Fijian people”.

Since our establishment in 2007, we have launched or are currently undertaking over 30 projects. These include internationally groundbreaking work such as those projects focusing on globally endangered species – the Fiji Petrel, the Fiji Flying Fox, the Fiji Sago Palm, the Lau Skink and the Yaqaga Crested Iguana. Other projects are even more challenging such as our current search for the Red-throated Lorikeet, which we fear may already be extinct, there being no confirmed sighting since 1993.

Become a Member By joining NatureFiji-MareqetiViti, you will become a member of Fiji’s leading local conservation organisation. As a non-profit and non-government organisation, NatureFijiMareqetiViti depends on membership subscriptions, donations and bequests. It is your support and generosity that will enable NatureFiji-MareqetiViti to work actively for the conservation of Fiji’s unique natural heritage.

For further information, contact us: Email: support@naturefiji.org Website: www.naturefiji.org

Acknowledgements NatureFiji-MareqetiViti and Dick Watling are grateful to the core group of ornithologists and interested colleagues who contributed to this report with conceptual ideas, information or with comments on drafts. The photographs speak for themselves and we are grateful to all of the photographers, who without exception contributed their images without charge. None more so than Jörg Kretzschmar, a Life Member of NatureFijiMareqetiViti, and Stuart Chape, whose continued support is highly appreciated. Mark O’Brien of BirdLife International Pacific Programme provided unpublished information on shorebird numbers at Suva Point and provided valuable comments on the manuscript. Sialesi Rasalato drafted the IBA Map on pg 18. NatureFijiMareqetiViti works with many partners in Fiji and in particular the Government, all of whom have contributed in one way or another to the production of this report. We are grateful to you all.

Photographs, from top left: Male Orange Dove Ptilinopus victor © Paddy Ryan; Kauvula Endospermum macrophyllum © Jörg Kretzschmar; Golden Dove Ptilinopus luteovirens © Baravi Thaman.