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Laysan Finch Telespiza cantans Scientific name definitions

Marie P. Morin and Sheila Conant
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2002

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Figure 1. Current distribution of the Laysan and Nihoa Finch - Range Map
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Figure 1. Current distribution of the Laysan and Nihoa Finch

The Laysan Finch historically is a natural population on Laysan Island and introduced population on Pearl and Hermes Atoll, and Nihoa Finch has a natural population on Nihoa Island. Introduced populations of Laysan Finches on Midway Atoll and Nihoa Finches on French Frigate Shoals are extirpated.

Recommended Citation

Morin, M. P. and S. Conant (2020). Laysan Finch (Telespiza cantans), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.layfin.01