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    The Cocos finch or Cocos Island finch (Pinaroloxias inornata) is the only one of the Darwin's finches not native to the Galápagos Islands, and the only...
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    Apart from the Cocos finch, which is from Cocos Island, the others are found only on the Galápagos Islands. The term "Darwin's finches" was first applied...
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    including three endemics: the Cocos cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus), Cocos flycatcher (Nesotriccus ridgwayi) and Cocos finch (Pinaroloxias inornata), with...
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    America perhaps just 3 million years ago. Excluding the Cocos finch, each species of Darwin's finch is generally widely distributed in the Galapagos and...
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    Cardinalidae. This subfamily includes Darwin's finches that are endemic to the Galápagos Islands and Cocos Island. Most of these species were formerly placed...
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  • Cocoa thrush Cocoa woodcreeper Cocoi heron Coconut lorikeet Cocos cuckoo Cocos finch Cocos flycatcher Coiba spinetail Coleto Colima pygmy owl Colima warbler...
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  • Island finch Tanager finch Great-billed seed finch Cocos finch Cinereous warbling finch Yellow-green finch Chestnut seedeater Temminck's seedeater Buffy-fronted...
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    Genus Paroaria Genus Phrygilus – sierra finches Genus Piezorina – cinereous finch Genus Pinaroloxias – Cocos finch Genus Pipraeidea - fawn-breasted tanager...
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    Bananaquit, Coereba flaveola Yellow-faced grassquit, Tiaris olivaceus Cocos finch, Pinaroloxias inornata (E) (vulnerable) Lesson's seedeater, Sporophila...
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    Saltator grandis LC Cinnamon-rumped seedeater, Sporophila torqueola LC Cocos finch, Pinaroloxias inornata VU Crimson-backed tanager, Ramphocelus dimidiatus...
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  • ray Central American squirrel monkey Central American woolly opossum Cocos finch Common caiman Coral spotted rain frog Costa Rica golden frog, Atelopus...
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  • only 149 of the species are called "tanager"; another 108 are called "finch". This family is found only in the New World, primarily in South and Middle...
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  • on their populations. Exploring the unique feeding behaviors of the Cocos Finch, endemic to its eponymous tropical oceanic island, he and Tracey Werner...
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    Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate. This spreading center truncates into the East Pacific Rise on the west and is bounded by the Cocos Ridge and Carnegie...
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  • Court. In three external territories (Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands) there is a supreme court and a magistrates' court or...
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    from a specimen collected in the Delaware River. The warbler finch and the Cocos Island finch are viewed as separate ecotypes. The Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)...
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    This is a list of the bird species recorded in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The avifauna of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands include a total of 154 species,...
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    beyond Nihoa and Mokumanamana (Necker). Dating the sediment containing the Cocos pollen is imprecise, but appears to be somewhere between 5,500 years ago...
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    Australian Antarctic Territory. The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie...
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    Galápagos Spreading Center, a mid-ocean ridge separating the Nazca and Cocos tectonic plates. The formation of Darwin Island is different from the formation...
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    range widely. The fastest-moving plates are the oceanic plates, with the Cocos Plate advancing at a rate of 75 millimetres (3.0 in) per year and the Pacific...
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    Queensland to Geelong in Victoria, with outlying colonies in Ingham and Finch Hatton in the north, and in Adelaide in the south. In the southern parts...
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    depleted by European settlement. FitzRoy investigated how the atolls of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands had formed, and the survey supported Darwin's theorising...
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    felina – felinum -fer L -bearing western honey bee, Apis mellifera; coconut, Cocos nucifera ferox L ferocious, wild, bold long snouted lancetfish, Alepisaurus...
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    Ceylon Garrison Artillery Regiment was stationed on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands, to defend it from Japanese attack. However, the regiment mutinied...
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  • Hawaiian Islands Star finch, unsuccessfully introduced to Tahiti Plum-headed finch, unsuccessfully introduced to Tahiti Zebra finch, unsuccessfully introduced...
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  • junglefowl) Gallus varius (green junglefowl) on Cocos (Keeling) Islands Padda oryzivora (Java sparrow) - Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island Lonchura...
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    G-AGLX was lost over the Indian Ocean en route between British Ceylon and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, all 10 on board died. Lancaster XPP Nine built by converting...
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    Northern royal albatross, Diomedea sanfordi Gouldian finch, Erythrura gouldiae Buff-banded rail (Cocos (Keeling) Islands subspecies), Gallirallus philippensis...
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    recut and shoot additional sequences for a German movie about the Battle of Cocos, Our Emden. The resulting film, The Exploits of the Emden, was a local hit...
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