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The Rimatara reed-warbler (Acrocephallus rimatarae) is strictly endemic to Rimatara.
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The ecoregion, and the EBA, are the only breeding area of the Iraq babbler (Turdoides altirostris) and the Basra reed-warbler (Acrocephalus griseldis).
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The other endemic is the Vulnerable Nauru reed-warbler (Acrocephalus rehsei).
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There are few endemic plant species on central Polynesian islands and the only passerine bird is the endemic bokikokiko (Acrocephalus aequinoctialis), a small reed-warbler found on Teraina, Tabueran, and Kiritimati.
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A reed-warbler (Acrocephalus kerearako), fruit dove (Ptilonopus rarotongensis), and kingfisher (Todiramphus ruficollaris) are shared between at least two islands.
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In the Tuamotus, there are still substantial areas of forest left on Makatea Island where the Polynesian pigeon (Ducula aurorae) survives in small numbers as well as the Makatea fruit-dove (Ptilinopus chalcurus) and Tuamotu reed-warbler (Acrocephalus atypha).
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And not a bird was seen or heard, neither rail nor water-hen, wag-tail nor reed-warbler.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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The reed-warbler makes its living as easily as any other bird, sits in summer in a shady spot facing the wind, in winter in a sunny and sheltered place among reeds in a marsh; it is small in size, with a pleasant note.
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Other birds, like the reed-warbler, build in reeds; this seems a very safe plan.
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So the little nest swings and sways with the wind over the water, and the reed-warbler is safe from cats, at all events; but one imagines the young birds must sometimes tumble out and get drowned before they can fly.
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"The breeding site of one of the world's least known birds, Large-billed Reed-warbler Acrocephalus orinus, has been discovered in the remote and rugged Wakhan Corridor of the Pamir Mountains of north-eastern Afghanistan." -- Bird Life International
January 15, 2010