These Japanese islands, which are an extention of the Izu-Ogasawara chain (see map, p. 454), are a Secondary Area because one restricted-range species, Japanese Wood-pigeon Columba janthina, occurred on Kita-iwo-jima and Iwo-jima, but became extinct during the early 1980s. The species survives in the Nansei, Izu, Ogasawara and other Japanese and Korean offshore islands (EBAs 146, 147 and 148, and Secondary Area s092).

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BirdLife International (2024) Endemic Bird Area factsheet: Iwo Islands. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/factsheet/390 on 22/11/2024.