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Common Redpoll
Order Passeriformes
Family Fringillidae
Scientific name Carduelis flammea
English name Common Redpoll
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Status in Vanuatu Vagrant species
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This northern hemisphere finch was introduced to New Zealand in 1862 and became widespread. It is a vagrant to Vanuatu, the first record is a single bird collected in 1961 on Aneityum (Bregulla, 1992). A second record is of a lone male seen on Tanna in 2008 (S. Totterman, personal observation). References.
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