Gough bunting  (Rowettia goughensis)

Description

The Gough bunting is a large, stocky, olive-coloured bunting, endemic to Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The more or less uniformly olive-green colouration of the male, which is slightly paler on its underparts, is disrupted only by the yellowish plumage of the forehead and eyebrow, and the prominent black ‘bib’ just below the thick-based, pointed black bill. Females lack the black bib and juveniles, by contrast, possess a buff-olive plumage, heavily streaked above and below with dark brown. The contact call consists of a keet keet sound and the song of a high, keening whistle (2).

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