Ogea Monarch
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The Ogea Monarch is a species of bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 in the Monarchidae family.
It is endemic to two islands, Ogea Driki
Ogea Driki
Ogea Driki is a coral atoll in Fiji's Southern Lau Group. It 2.7 kilometers south from Ogea Levu, 10 kilometers east of Fulaga. It is the farming and fishing ground for the Ogean villagers who own the island and subdivided into farming lots as well as beaches...

 and Ogea Levu
Ogea Levu
Ogea Levu is a coral island on a barrier reef in Fiji's Southern Lau archipelago. With an area of 13.3 square kilometers, it is situated at 19.18° South and 178.47° East, 10 kilometers east of Fulaga. It has a maximum altitude of 82 meters....

, in the Lau Group
Lau Islands
The Lau Islands of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, just east of the Koro Sea. Of this chain of about one hundred islands and islets, about thirty are inhabited...

 of south eastern Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

.

Its natural habitat
Habitat
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 is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
Forest
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s. The species is little known, it feeds on insects and is thought to breed around July. The species is not thought to be threatened by habitat loss, instead it is considered vulnerable due to its tiny range and the prospect of introduced predators
Introduced species
An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...

hunting it. It has been proposed that extra populations be established on other islands to act as a safeguard. It does not have a local name.
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