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Gough Island Finch

Rowettia goughensis

Classification

Class
Aves

The Gough finch (Rowettia goughensis) or Gough bunting, is a critically endangered species of songbird. Taxonomy The Gough finch was formally described in 1904 by the British ornithologist William Eagle Clarke from a specimen collected on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Clarke coined the binomial name Nesospiza goughensis.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 54