Hawaiian Honeycreepers (1 Viewer)

[Ben Wielstra]

Multilocus Resolution of Phylogeny and Timescale in the Extant Adaptive Radiation of Hawaiian Honeycreepers: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211010785

And also http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020145144.htm

(The first to show Carpodacus sister? Apparently five days too late: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790311004180)

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Multilocus Resolution of Phylogeny and Timescale in the Extant Adaptive Radiation of Hawaiian Honeycreepers: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211010785

And also http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020145144.htm

(The first to show Carpodacus sister? Apparently five days too late: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790311004180)

Full pdf article

 

[Richard Klim]

GrrlScientist: Hawaiian honeycreepers and their tangled evolutionary tree.

[With thanks to Ian Paulsen for posting on Surfbirds.]

 

[Richard Klim]

Birdwatch

Birdwatch Listcheck article by David Callahan: Are Honeycreepers rosefinches? [18 Nov 2011]

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Trevor D. Price, 2011. Adaptive Radiations: There's Something About Finches. Current Biology, Volume 21, Issue 23.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211011894

 

[Peter Kovalik]

'I'iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) x Apapane (Himatione sanguinea)

Jessie L. Knowlton, David J. Flaspohler, N. C. Rotzel Mcinerney, and Robert C. Fleischer. First Record of Hybridization in the Hawaiian Honeycreepers: 'I'iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) × 'Apapane (Himatione sanguinea). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126(3):562–568, 2014.

[Abstract]

 

[Melanie]

Jessie L. Knowlton, David J. Flaspohler, N. C. Rotzel Mcinerney, and Robert C. Fleischer. First Record of Hybridization in the Hawaiian Honeycreepers: 'I'iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) × 'Apapane (Himatione sanguinea). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126(3):562–568, 2014.

[Abstract]

Very interesting. I think the 'I'iwi is still one of the least understand honeycreepers. At the beginning of the 20th century it was regarded as close relative of the Mamos (Drepanis) and now it seems that it is closer to Himatione.

 

[Peter Kovalik]

IOC Update Diary:

July 6 Accept Akepa splits

July 6 Accept Nukupuu splits

July 6 Accept Greater Akialoa splits

 

[Peter Kovalik]

TiF Update July 11

The genera Palmeria, Himatione, and Vestiaria have been merged into Drepanis. The genetic distance between them seems to be small (Lerner et al., 2011) and there is evidence of hybridization between Vestiaria and Himatione (Knowlton et al., 2014). Although I think the genera I use for the Hawaiian Honeycreepers are oversplit, I consider the AOU genera even more oversplit. I haven't gone further on the lumping because data on the extinct species is too limited.

I follow the recent AOU decisions (56th supplement) to split the Apapane, Akepa, Greater Akialoa, and Nukupuu.

 

[Peter Kovalik]

IOC Update Diary

July 12 Move Hawaii Creeper (Manucerthia) to Loxops

 

[Melanie]

IOC Update Diary

July 12 Move Hawaii Creeper (Manucerthia) to Loxops

Seems that Dr. Pratt's research work is not accepted by many scientists.

 

[bkrownd]

It seems like hawaii creeper changes genus every other year.

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Seems that Dr. Pratt's research work is not accepted by many scientists.

H. Douglas Pratt, 2014. A consensus taxonomy for the Hawaiian Honeycreepers. Occasional Papers Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, No. 85.

PDF

 

[Melanie]

Historical Biogeography and Extinction in the Hawaiian Honeycreepers
Robert E. Ricklefs*

Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO 63121

*Corresponding author: e-mail: [email protected].
SUBMITTED: Dec 20, 2016
ACCEPTED: Mar 22, 2017
ONLINE: Aug 14, 2017

Abstract

Hawaiian honeycreepers, comprising an endemic radiation of passerine birds in the Hawaiian archipelago, have suffered losses of individual island populations and the extinction of many species as a result of colonization of the islands by Polynesians and, more recently, introduced avian pox virus and avian malaria. Here, I test the idea that populations have an intrinsic tendency toward extinction regardless of the cause. The distribution of each species before the arrival of humans in the archipelago was inferred from present distribution, historical records, and fossil remains. On the basis of these records, each species was placed in one of four stages of the taxon cycle: (1) expanding or recently expanded, (2) differentiating, (3) fragmenting, or (4) single-island endemic. Subsequent extinction of individual island populations was most frequent in stage 3 species, which had already suffered loss of individual island populations, suggesting commonality in vulnerability to extinction from anthropogenic and nonanthropogenic causes.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/693346