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Oahu Alauahio - BirdForum Opus

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Paroreomyza maculata

Identification

aka Oahu Creeper. Likely extinct.

11 cm. Male yellow below, olive-green above with dark lores fading into eye-stripe and distinct yellow superciliary. Female greenish-grey above, pale yellowish-white below, with two prominent, pale wing-bars, pale lores and dark line behind eye only.

Distribution

endemic to O`ahu in Hawaii.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Behaviour

It is believed that the diet included carabid beetles.

One nest with two eggs was collected in late January 1901.

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