Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of Tristan Da Cunha and Gough IslandThis book provides a compact identification guide to the animals and plants of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago and Gough Island, with more than 400 colour photographs. |
Contents
Plants | 15 |
Birds Peter Ryan | 61 |
Mammals Marthán Bester and Peter Ryan | 99 |
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abundant adults Agrostis amphipods areas beaches bill birds Bog Fern brown Bunting burrows Chick fed cm high cm long coastal colonies common Conservation crustaceans dark dense Diet mainly Distribution dives dorsal fin eggs endemic Endemic to Tristan feed female fern bush fish fledge Flowers forages fronds glabrous glume Gough Island Grass grey habitats Inaccessible and Gough Inaccessible Island indusium inflorescence introduced species Introduced to Tristan invertebrates Island Trees Kelp leaves lobes males marine moult Nightingale and Inaccessible non-breeding visitor numbers Occurs singly Ocean pairs breed pectoral fins perennial Phylica pinnae plants population predators rhizome rocks seabirds seaweeds Settlement Plain Shearwater skuas slender South America South Atlantic Southern Spartina species spikelets squid St Paul Islands stems Storm Petrel Subantarctic Fur Seal tail Tristan Albatross Tristan and Gough Tristan and Inaccessible Tristan da Cunha Tristan waters tussock upper vagrant vegetation wet heath Whale wings wingspan Zealand