Samoan trip offers King Charles once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to look out for Tooth-billed Pigeons

                                           

The Tooth-billed Pigeon is Samoa's national bird -  at most only a few hundred survive 

IF his busy schedule allows it, there could be intriguing birding opportunities for King Charles when he attends the conference of  Commonwealth Heads of Government on the Polynesian island of Samoa later this month.

Although the list of bird species only amounts to about 100, the following nine are unique to Samoa:

* Tooth-billed Pigeon 

* Samoan Moorhen

* Flat-billed Kingfisher

* Samoan Myzomela

* Mao

* Samoan Fantail

* Samoan Flycatcher

* Samoan White-eye

* Samoan Starling

A further 13 species are thought to be globally threatened.

The event will see the leaders of 56 Commonwealth nations gather in Apia, the Samoan capital.

Climate change and efforts to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence top the agenda for the conference which has as its theme: "One Resilient Common Future: Transforming our Common Wealth". 

Accompanied on the trip by Queen Camilla, His Majesty is currently in Australia

* Pictures via Wikimedia

                                     

Samoan Flycatcher