A lone Nordmann's Greenshank roosting with its favourite 'friend' Grey Plover.
BirdLife, a global alliance which works in more than 100 countries, says most Fijian forests are unprotected and at risk from logging or conversion to mahogany plantations.
It says its research shows degraded forest is unsuitable for the warbler and for many other birds.
Mongooses have caused the extinction of all of the ground-nesting birds on the main Fijian islands.
A lone Nordmann's Greenshank - roosting with its favourite 'friend' Grey Plover
With the reclamation of Saemungeum, the future is bleak for many shorebirds, including the Nordmann's Greenshank.
Photo: Nial Moore
Thursday, 30 May, 2002
Brazil's 'extinct' bird still alive
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
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