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The O‘ahu ‘ō‘ō (Moho apicalis) is among dozens of bird species that became extinct after the human settlement of Hawaii. This is a list of Hawaiian animal species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE ) [ a ] and continues to ...
Extinct birds of Hawaii. Pages in category "Extinct birds of Hawaii" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
The bird was a cavity nester in the thickly forested canyons of Kauaʻi. All of its relatives have also become extinct, such as the Hawaiʻi ʻōʻō, Bishop's ʻōʻō, and Oʻahu ʻōʻō. Relatively little is known about these extinct birds.
Moho is a genus of extinct birds in the Hawaiian bird family, Mohoidae, that were endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Members of the genus are known as ʻōʻō in the Hawaiian language. Their plumage was generally striking glossy black; some species had yellowish axillary tufts and other black outer feathers.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the Hawaiian bird Kauaʻi ʻōʻō from its Endangered Species List, because the species is extinct. You can still listen to a recording of one of these ...
The, or Oreomystis bairdi, is now considered functionally extinct, with only a handful of those birds left on Kauai. That means the species cannot sustain itself in the wild, according to ...
The birds became too rare to be shot in any great quantities, but continued to be found for nearly 30 years. Despite records of mass hunting, collection seemed to play only a minor role in the species' extinction, and mosquito-borne diseases and deforestation probably were the major reasons for its extinction (very similar to the other members ...
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 ...