Inaccessible Island finch

Inaccessible Island finch
On Inaccessible Island
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae
Genus: Nesospiza
Species: N. acunhae
Binomial name
Nesospiza acunhae
Cabanis, 1873

The Inaccessible Island finch (Nesospiza acunhae) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae (formerly in Emberizidae).

It is endemic to Inaccessible Island of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago where its natural habitats are temperate shrubland and subantarctic grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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