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  1. bkrownd

    Poo-uli Endangered or Extinct?

    From what I heard yesterday, the recent decline of 'akeke'e and 'akikiki populations on Kaua'i was confirmed by this May's survey. No specific cause was identified.
  2. bkrownd

    Poo-uli Endangered or Extinct?

    I don't know much about specific habitat on kaua'i or maui, but in general any habitat that isn't actively managed for removal of vermin such as rats, cats, pigs, goats, sheep, cattle, deer, melastomes, strawberry guava, australian tree fern, lilikoi, etc is going to be in continual decline, and...
  3. bkrownd

    Poo-uli Endangered or Extinct?

    I went to a talk on the forest bird status at the volcano park last night. The news is still pretty grim. He gave the status of the maui nukupu'u as 'extinct' - I wasn't sure about that one before, because sightings have historically been very sporadic on difficult terrain. However, surveying...
  4. bkrownd

    Poo-uli Endangered or Extinct?

    Speaking of which, the audio/video library at www.animalbehaviorarchive.org worked for once in a blue moon yesterday, and I was finally able to hear the 'o'u and 'o'o sing through the magic of the internet. The 'o'u (a finchy honeycreeper) was a fairly nice singer. However, the 'o'o (a...
  5. bkrownd

    Poo-uli Endangered or Extinct?

    The last sighting was 1989, before Hurricane Iniki tore up Kaua'i. Last heard on Hawai'i in 1988. It's gone. A friend of mine recently told me the story about how he was present for the last official sighting of the 'o'u, and was the only person in the party who didn't see it.
  6. bkrownd

    Poo-uli Endangered or Extinct?

    That one's a bit of an abberation. Don't count your puaiohi before they hatch. All it takes is one new disease or predator or hurricane and...poof! One thing to keep in mind about "undetected for years" is that people didn't start looking very hard or consistently until recently. Captive...
  7. bkrownd

    Poo-uli Endangered or Extinct?

    Also, the last three known birds all lived in three different areas, isolated from one another. Once populations get down into the low hundreds it's just a matter of time...
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