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The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (/ k ɑː ˈ w ɑː. iː ˈ oʊ. oʊ /) or ʻōʻōʻāʻā (Moho braccatus) was the last member of the ʻōʻō genus within the Mohoidae family of birds from the islands of Hawaiʻi. The entire family is now extinct. It was previously regarded as a member of the Australo-Pacific honeyeaters (family Meliphagidae). [7]
Holocene eagle fossils have been found on Oahu, Molokai, and Maui. The absence of eagle fossils from other Hawaiian islands might represent a true gap in distribution or a deficiency in the fossil record. Based on DNA research, these fossils represent the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) or a very close relative. The Hawaiian eagle was ...
[4] [5] The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō was the last species of this genus to become extinct, likely a victim of avian malaria. [ 6 ] Until recently, the birds in this genus were thought to belong to the family Meliphagidae ( honeyeaters ) because they looked and acted so similar to members of that family, including many morphological details.
The oldest of the Hawaiian islands is a little more than 5 million years old, [1] and the Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian, Paleozoic, or Mesozoic fossils in Hawaii. Cenozoic
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]
Mohoidae, also known as the Hawaiian honeyeaters, was a family of Hawaiian species of now recently extinct, nectarivorous songbirds in the genera Moho (ʻōʻō) and Chaetoptila (kioea). 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 ...
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Located about 2,300 miles (3,680 km) from the nearest continental shore, the Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated group of islands on the planet. The plant and animal life of the Hawaiian archipelago is the result of early, very infrequent colonizations of arriving species and the slow evolution of those species—in isolation from the rest of the world's flora and fauna—over a period of ...