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This is a list of the bird species recorded in Mauritius. The avifauna of Mauritius include a total of 119 species, of which ten are endemic (eight on Mauritius Islands and two on Rodrigues Island), five are native indigenous species, twenty-one have been introduced by humans and thirty are rare or accidental. One species listed is extirpated in Mauritius and is not included in the species count. Sixteen species are globally threatened. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of ''The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World'', 5th edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for Mauritius. The following tags have been used to highlight several categories. * (A) Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Mauritius * (E) Endemic - a species endemic to Mauritius * (I) Introduced - a species introduced to Mauritius as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions * (Ex) Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in Mauritius although populations exist elsewhere * (N) Native - a species that is indigenous to Mauritius and the Mascarenes __NOTOC__ ==Albatrosses== Order: ProcellariiformesFamily: Diomedeidae The albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus ''Diomedea'' have the largest wingspans of any extant birds. There are 21 species worldwide and 5 species which occur in Mauritius. *Wandering albatross, ''Diomedea exulans'' *Black-browed albatross, ''Thalassarche melanophris'' *Yellow-nosed albatross, ''Thalassarche chlororhynchos'' *Sooty albatross, ''Phoebetria fusca'' (A) *Light-mantled albatross, ''Phoebetria palpebrata'' (A) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of birds of Mauritius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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