Some limiting factors and research needs of endangered Hawaiian forest birds
- Author:
-
Banko, Winston E.
- Title:
- Some limiting factors and research needs of endangered Hawaiian forest birds
- Periodical:
- Proceedings second conference in natural sciences Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
- Year:
- 1978
- Pages:
- 9 pp.
- Subject:
-
Forest birds
Endangered species birds
Introduced species
Insect pests
Birds ecology
- Summary:
- It is well known that Hawaiian birds are particularly susceptible to depopulation and extinction. Twenty-three of 69 endemic species or races have disappeared since the discovery of Hawaii by Europeans 200 years ago. This paper investigated the possible impact of foreign parasitic flies and wasps in depleting native insect foods important to the small Hawaiian forest birds at higher elevations.
- URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18300
- Date:
- 1978
- Collection:
- Monographs