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Guam

You will notice that there is no introduction to this section yet.

I would like to fill this gap with an introduction from a local birder [or someone who is a frequent visitor] for every on of the geographical pages. The many thousands of birders now regularly using these pages prefer to read something written by someone who can see the place from an insider's point of view. They know the best spots, not just the ones that first time overseas visitors usually visit or that are on the normal birding trip itineraries.

Each introduction carries the e-mail address of the contributor so that birders can get in touch with them if, for example, they are planning a trip [unless the contributor is unable to do this].

Please get in touch if you feel you can contribute an introduction to this page - you don't have to be an expert; I'm not!

numbers

Number of endemics:1
Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni

trip reports

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Birds of Guam - John J Stophlet

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v063n04/p0534-p0540.pdf
Pdf

Extinctions and Loss of Species from Guam: Birds

http://www.fort.usgs.gov/resources/education/bts/impacts/birds.asp
Beginning in the mid 1906's, the brown Treesnake decimated Guam's native avifauna. The birds of Guam evolved in the absence of snake predators. They had no experience with such a predator and lacked protective behaviors against the brown Treesnake. Consequently, they were easy prey for these efficient, nocturnal predators...

Guam Broadbill Myiagra freycineti

http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e101033.htm
A small flycatcher with head and neck bluish with a metallic luster, lores and anterior forehead gray; back and upper wing coverts near green-blue; rump grayer than back; chin and throat white; breast light cinnamon, fading to pale buff and white on abdomen and under tail coverts; tail bluish-slate with tips of tail feathers edged with white; bill and feet black; iris dark brown...

Guam Rail Rallus owstoni

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/EndangeredSpecies/GuamRail/default.cfm
Guam rails Rallus owstoni are a small flightless bird that lived only on the island of Guam in the Mariana Archipelago in the Pacific. They are omnivorous, eating leaves, seeds, fruits, small lizards, bird eggs, small mammals, and carrion...

Guam Rail Rallus owstoni

http://www.yakscorner.com/stories/guam_rail.htm
It's a multicolored bird that stands 12 inches tall. It's the last rail species in the Mariana Islands, a Pacific Ocean island group halfway between Japan and New Guinea...

The Birds of Guam

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v063n04/p0534-p0540.pdf
In view of the fact that very little information is available on the birds of the islands of the Pacific,t he author presentsa list of birds observed on Guam, Marianas Islands, between September 19 and December 12, 1945...