History of endemic Hawaiian birds: Part I. Population histories - Species accounts; Forest birds: Akialoa, Nukupuu & Akiapolaau

Author:

Banko, Winston E.

Title:

History of endemic Hawaiian birds: Part I. Population histories - Species accounts; Forest birds: Akialoa, Nukupuu & Akiapolaau

Periodical:

CPSU/UH Avian History Report 9: History of endemic Hawaiian birds

Year:

1984

Subject:

Akiapolaau Hemignathus munroi Forest birds Birds conservation Birds ecology Endangered species birds

Summary:

Akiapolaau (Hemignathus wilsoni) is a small, short-tailed, mostly olive-green forest bird with strongly decurved black bill and having a straight lover mandible. It is endemic to the island of Hawaii. This report summarized the exhaustive search of literature and related statements etc. on relative abundance and geographical distribution from 1877 to 1978. Ornithologists up to 1896 reported this species widely distributed and common to numerous in the upper forest. Observers from 1902 to 1978 found progressively fewer in all districts. Only on a few hundred acres of the upper Keauhou Ranch and its contiguous Kilauea Forest Reserve is a viable population plainly evident, and even in this locality numbers are comparatively fewer than in the recent past, and apparently still declining. The long-term outlook for survival of this species is bleak.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10125/355

Collection:

Monographs