Jacquemart Island
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Jacquemart Island, one of the islets surrounding Campbell Island in New Zealand, lies 1 km south of Campbell Island and is the southernmost island of New Zealand.
Jacquemart Island in the distance
Subantarctic snipe
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The Subantarctic snipe, sometimes also Auckland snipe or New Zealand snipe, is a species of snipe endemic to New Zealand's subantarctic islands. The Maori call it "Tutukiwi". The nominate race C. a. a
Jacquemart Island
…snipe. Until the Campbell Islands were cleared of introduced rats in 2001, Jacquemart was also the last refuge of the Campbell snipe, a subspecies of Subantarctic snipe first discovered in 1997 and described in 2009. After the eradication of rats, the snipe began to recolonise the rest of the group, with a small breeding…
Campbell snipe