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The nene is the official state bird of Hawaii.. This list of birds of Hawaii is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of Hawaii as determined by Robert L. and Peter Pyle of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and modified by subsequent taxonomic changes.
House finch (All main islands) Atlantic canary; Yellow-fronted canary (O'ahu, Hawaii) Laysan finch^ (Pearl and Hermes Reef*) House sparrow (All main islands) Red-cheeked cordon-bleu (Hawaii) Lavender waxbill (Hawaii, O'ahu) Orange-cheeked waxbill (Maui, O'ahu) Black-rumped waxbill (Hawaii) Common waxbill (All main islands) Red avadavat (Kauai ...
The palila (Loxioides bailleui) is a critically endangered finch-billed species of Hawaiian honeycreeper.It has a golden-yellow head and breast, with a light belly, gray back, and greenish wings and tail.
Beak and tongue shapes of Hawaiian honeycreepers and the Mohoidae. Hawaiian honeycreepers are a group of small birds endemic to Hawaiʻi.They are members of the finch family Fringillidae, closely related to the rosefinches (Carpodacus), but many species have evolved features unlike those present in any other finch.
The saffron finch was formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 12th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Fringilla flaveola. [2] The specific epithet is a diminutive of the Latin flavus meaning "golden" or "yellow". [3] The type locality is Suriname. [4]
The Laysan finch is a large honeycreeper with a heavy bill. Overall the male has yellow plumage with a whitish belly and a grey neck. The female is duller than the male, with brown streaking. It is almost impossible to confuse the Laysan finch with any other bird in the field as it is the only passerine species found on the few islands it lives on.
In the era following western contact, habitat loss and avian disease are thought to have had the greatest effect on endemic bird species in Hawaii, although native peoples are implicated in the loss of dozens of species before the arrival of Captain Cook and others, in large part due to the arrival of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) which ...
Loxops coccineus: The Hawaiʻi ʻakepa survives only in two or three locations, all on the island of Hawaii: one population in Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge (on the Hamakua Coast of Mauna Kea), one in the upper forest areas of Kau (in the southern part of the island), and one on the northern slope of Hualālai (perhaps extirpated).