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This is a list of birds recorded in the island of Vieques. Vieques is an island municipality of Puerto Rico located off the east coast of the main island of Puerto Rico, south of Culebra island and west of the Virgin Islands. It has a total area of 348.15 km2, of which only 135 km2 is land area. On May 1, 2001, the western end of Vieques National Wildlife Refuge was established and on May 1, 2003, the same day as the exit of the U.S. Navy from the island, the eastern end of the refuge was established. There are a total of 142 species recorded from the island of Vieques. Some species, such as the Puerto Rican parrot, have been extirpated from the island but are, nonetheless, included in this list. Extinct species are not included in this list. This list presents the following information for each species: common and scientific name of each species, preferred habitat, breeding status in Vieques and frequency of occurrence for each season (winter spans from December to February, spring from March to May, summer from June to August, fall from September to November). Tags (described below) are used to describe this information for each species. ==Taxonomy== 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, stray and extirpated species are included in the total species counts for Vieques. The following tags have been used to describe the frequency of occurrence of each species in Vieques. *(a) Abundant - a species that is commonly encountered in Vieques *(c) Common - a species that commonly occurs in Vieques * Uncommon - a species that occurs uncommonly - it is present but rarely seen in Vieques *(o) Occasional - a species that may not occur every year *(r) Rare - a species that has been reported once or twice The following tags have been used to describe the habitats in which a species occurs. Species may inhabit more than one type of habitat. *(TS) Thorn scrub *(IA) Inhabited areas *(ML) Mangrove lagoons *(DF) Dry forest *(Sh) Shoreline *(MF) Moist forest The following tags have been used to describe the breeding status of each species in Vieques. *(B) Breeder *(PB) Probable breeder *(NB) Non-breeder *(WV) Winter visitor *(M) Migrant *(St) Stray __NOTOC__ 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 Vieques」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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