Guess the country with animals

Haiti perhaps? I know DR has trogon as it's national bird, not so sure about Haiti and can't think of an exw species from there although.

 

I’ll guess Tanzania. Only two countries have the Grey Crowned Crane as the national bird, and it does not have a lot of endemic species, one of which being Kihansi Spray Toads.

 

Neither guess so far is correct.

Upon reflection, I've just realised I may have bent the rules of the game slightly...

 

With that hint, I’m guessing it’s not actually a country because I don’t see any other way you could’ve bent the rules.

I know guam kingfishers are EXW, so Guam?

 

Just with birds, Tanzania has some 34 endemic species...

 

And it isn't exactly a country that "lacks much of the biodiversity of its larger neighbours"...

 

Well the only other place that I could find looking off a national bird list on wikipedia was el salvador and Nicaragua (both with different species of motmots), and I don't think el sal has anything exw and Nicaragua I believe is biodiverse, so assume it's some small territory, to which I guess maybe
Bermuda?
(Browsing red list and also remembering you've done some conservation work there) Also is it an animal or just any species?

 

Eswatini? together with Angola the only country to have a turaco as its national bird and Mozambique and South Africa are almost certainly more diverse. No idea what the extinct endemic is tho

 

The rule 'bent' was probably this one then:

I don't think that any of the animal EW species match with the other country descriptions, so @J I N X probably got it.

 

Yup, it was Eswatini, and Encephalartos relictus was indeed the species in question. Wasn't sure where we stood on plants, given the title mentions animals specifically.

Your go @J I N X .

 

2 subspecies each of a big cat and a canid intergrade in this country. It forms the western-most limit of the distribution of a species of ungulate and the eastern-most limit of another species of ungulate. It is one of two countries where a critically endangered species of non-passerine bird occurs.

 

Is it Argentina?

 

Pakistan perhaps?

 

yeah that's right, your turn

 

Could I know the other species? Think the cr.e bird is great indian bustard but would like to know the others.

 

Persian leopard and Indian leopard, Eurasian grey wolf and Indian wolf, hog deer and wild goat

 

This country is one of two nations with endemic gaviallidae, has it's own endemic varanus subgenus (which split off around 20 mya) as well as being the home of a semi-recently described giant rodent.

 

Indonesia? Although I'm confused with the gavialidae clue, I don't think either gavialidae species are endemic to a single country.

 

No, and the endemic part is intentional yes.