Nightingale Island Finch

Nightingale Island Finch
Nightingale Island Finch
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae
Genus: Nesospiza
Species: N. questi
Binomial name
Nesospiza questi
Lowe, 1923

The Nightingale Island Finch (Nesospiza questi) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family (formerly in Emberizidae). It is endemic to Nightingale Island of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland and subantarctic grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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