The eggs and young of the palila, an endangered species
- Author:
-
Berger, Andrew J.
- Title:
- The eggs and young of the palila, an endangered species
- Periodical:
- Condor
- Year:
- 1970
- Volume:
- 72
- Pages:
- 238-240
- Subject:
-
Palila
Loxioides bailleui
Endangered species birds
Kaohe Game Management Area
Mamane
Sophora chrysophylla
Mamane-naio forest
Birds eggs
- Summary:
- Endemic to the island of Hawaii, the Palila (Psittirostra bailleui), is one of the few surviving "finch billed" members of the Hawaiian honeycreeper family (Drepanidinae) that is restricted to the mamane (Sophora chrysophylla)-naio (Myoporum sandwicense) forest -- the only large extant forest of its kind that is located on the slopes of Mauna Kea. Here, the Palila lives largely on the seeds and flowers of the mamane tree. This document describes field work that was done in the 1960s in an effort to determine the status of the Palila. Here, the author presents the first photographs of a nest, eggs, and newly-hatched young of the Palila.
- Label:
- Birds - Palila
- URL:
- https://sora.unm.edu/node/101938
- Date:
- 1970
- Collection:
- Periodicals