Feathers fly over Hawaiian bird
- Author:
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Dalton, Rex
- Title:
- Feathers fly over Hawaiian bird
- Periodical:
- Nature
- Year:
- 2008
- Volume:
- 456
- Pages:
- 682-683
- Subject:
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Endangered species birds
Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
Hawaii Akepa
Japanese White-eye
Loxops coccineus
Zosterops japonicus
- Summary:
- According to a team led by ornithologist Leonard Freed of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the "competition with an invasive species - the Japanese white-eye (Zosterops janonicus) has caused a population crash among a honeycreeper called the Hawaii Akepa (Loxops coccineus)." The Japanese White-eye competes with the Hawaii Akepa for food. However, officials at the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge say they have seen no long-term decline in the population.
- Label:
- Birds - Akepa
- URL:
- https://www.nature.com/articles/456682a
- Date:
- December 11, 2008
- Collection:
- Periodicals