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ANIMAL INFORMATION: Please note, this part of mongabay has been updated |
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Kaua'i 'O'oEducational resources on Kaua'i 'O'oKaua'i 'O'o or Moho braccatus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Extinct . IUCN Profile of the Kaua'i 'O'o TAXONOMY The Kaua'i 'o'o is passing into the final moments of its existence. Immediate action is needed to prevent its extinction. No recovery actions are being taken, apart fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e101022.htm UH Press: Books and Journals published by the University of Hawaii ... One of world's rarest birds is the Kaua'i 'O'o, the victim of predation and extensive changes to its environment. These and other threats to the Island's fragile bird populations www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/cart/shopcore/?db_name=uhpress&page=shop/flypage&product_sku=978-0... Biodiversity - why does it matter? Once they are gone, like the flightless geese that once roamed Hawaii's shores and the Kaua`i `o`o that www2.hawaii.edu/~melmizu/masters/biodiversityfnl.htm TAXONOMY Tree cavities are used for nesting by the Kaua'i 'o'o; the nest of the 'o'u has never been found, but the lack of detection of the 'o'u nest and the recent finds fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e101027.htm The Big Picture Once they are gone, like the flightless geese that once roamed Hawaii's shores or the Kaua`i `o`o that disappeared www2.hawaii.edu/~melmizu/masters/bigpicturefnl.htm Postcards from Kaua'i This area is famous for being the last stronghold of several critically endangered forest birds, including the Kaua'i O'o or O'o A'a, 'Akialoa, Nukupu'u, O'u, Kama'o, and Puaiohi. www.princeton.edu/~melinda/kauai.html TAXONOMY In another observation in 1974 a Kaua'i nukupu'u was feeding in the same 'ohi'a tree with 'apapane, and a Kaua'i 'o'o was feeding in an adjacent tree 9 m away; there was no fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e101025.htm EBSCOhost Kaua'I'O'o 1987, Island of Disease, rat (Moha braccatus) Kaua'I, Hawaii predation Xerces Blue Butterfly 1941, San Francisco Land www.esf.edu/efb/horton/Mass_Extinctions.htm Species Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) 1950s, Caribbean Sea Overhunting, harassment Guam flycatcher (Myiagra freycinetI) 1983, Guam Predation by introduced brown tree snakes Kaua'i 'O'o www.biol.ttu.edu/faculty/belinsky/Teaching/Animal%20Behavior%20(Zool%204312)/termination...
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