Brown mesite Brown mesite The brown mesite ("Mesitornis unicolor") is a ground-dwelling bird endemic to Madagascar. It is one of three species in the mesite family or the Mesitornithidae, and though classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), it is the most widespread of the three. This species is a medium-sized terrestrial bird which is often described as rail-like (a family with which the mesites are sometimes placed). The species has a plain face, marked only by a slightly contrasting fleshy eye-ring around a rather large eye and a variable white streak behind the eye. It has
Disko Island sp., "Tetranchyroderma" sp., "Thaumastoderma" sp. and "Turbanella" sp. Disko Island Disko Island (, ) is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. It has an area of , making it the second largest island of Greenland (after the main island of Greenland) and one of the 100 largest islands in the world. The name "Qeqertarsuaq" means "The Large Island" (from "qeqertaq" = island). The island has a length of about , rising to an average height of , peaking at . The port of Qeqertarsuaq (named after the island, and also known as Godhavn) lies