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Hawaiian islands, but the Kauai species seems to have outlived all the rest. Unfortunately, scientists fear that even this bird might have gone extinct. Because these birds were so rare, not much
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The Kauai ʻakialoa, like all the other ʻakialoa subspecies (now all raised to species), was rare even when it was first discovered in the 18th century. According to fossil records, their numbers declined extremely in the early 20th century. The typical habitats for the Kauai ʻakialoa were either
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Hawaiian Islands. Today, only about 40,000 acres (160 km) of Kauai have not been drastically altered. Many avian diseases and parasites also pose a major threat to Hawaii's forest birds. Dramatic forest fires on the islands in the past caused further
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which led to demise of the ʻakialoa, was first introduced via whaling ships in 1826. The insects tended to prefer low elevation, moist environments, and seasonally warm temperatures, which is the conditions in which ʻakialoa birds were found. These mosquitoes were carrying a
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passed a law to protect all native perching birds. In 1964, two scientists, F. Richardson and J. Bowles, published a survey of the birds of Kauai and introduced the world to these beautiful birds' fragile existence.
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which infected and killed a majority of the ʻakialoa birds, thus beginning the slow demise of the species, as well as many other
Hawaiian species.
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was discovered in the intestine of the Kauaʻi ʻakialoa in 1896.
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499:"Memoirs: Note: Arhynchus Hemignathi"
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497:Shipley, Arthur E. (1 August 1899).
38:Specimen in Bishop Museum, Honolulu
1076:Taxa named by Scott Barchard Wilson
437:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
344:is known about their life history.
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755:Hemignathus ellisianus stejnegeri
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384:Hawaiian Territorial Legislature
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288:1: male 2: juvenile 3: female
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16:Extinct species of bird
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592:The New York Times
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410:References
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