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Nightingale Island finch

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ3347218 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

It is endemic to Nightingale 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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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nightingale Island finch” is species of bird. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nightingale, Island and finch, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 46-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nightingale, Island and finch is the immediate research focus.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3347218. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nightingale Island finch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.