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Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction and Evolution in Hawaii. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. ISBN 978-0-3002-2964-6.. Chapter 2 of the book is about the ʻōʻō, including the work of John Sincock, who rediscovered the bird in the early 1970s. Kauaʻi ʻōʻō; ML: Macaulay Library Archived February 8, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
Likely causes of extinction include disease carried by introduced mosquitos, deforestation and degradation of forests by feral pigs. [28] ʻĀmaui: Myadestes woahensis: Oahu [29] Known from a single individual collected in 1825 and fossil remains. The cause of extinction is unknown, though habitat destruction and avian malaria are suspected. [29]
These now extinct birds form their own family, representing the only complete extinction of an entire avian family in modern times, [1] when the disputed family Turnagridae is regarded as invalid. The last surviving species in the family, the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō ( Moho braccatus ), became extinct after 1987.
The Kauaʻi palila or Pila's palila (Loxioides kikuchi) is an extinct species of Hawaiian finch that was much larger than the palila (Loxioides bailleui).It was described from subfossil remains discovered at the Makauwahi Cave on the south coast of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands.
Extensive work on the puaiohi, another rare Kauai forest bird, has yielded no sightings of the Kauai ʻakialoa. In September 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed declaring the Kauaʻi ʻakialoa extinct, following the IUCN. [6] In October 2023, the species was delisted from the Endangered Species Act citing extinction. [7]
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The oldest of the Hawaiian islands is Kauai, of the archipelago's northwest.Kauai preserves lava flows that formed slightly more than five million years ago. [2] No non-avian dinosaur fossils have ever been found in Hawaii because the volcanic activity responsible for their creation did not begin until after their extinction. [3]