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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Extinct species of bird Laysan rail 1913 photograph of live specimen by Alfred M. Bailey Conservation status Extinct (1944) (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae Genus: Zapornia Species ...
As the vegetation disappeared, the bird suffered increased egg predation by Laysan finches (Telespiza cantans), ruddy turnstones (Arenaria interpres) and bristle-thighed curlews (Numenius tahitiensis), as well as increased competition for food and nesting habitat; a small patch of tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca) was the only locality left where ...
It has two subspecies, A. f. kingi and A f. familiaris.The nominate subspecies, the Laysan millerbird, became extinct sometime between 1916 and 1923. The other, the critically endangered Nihoa millerbird, is the only race left, inhabiting the small island of Nihoa in Hawaiʻi, though it has since been reintroduced to Laysan.
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Taxidermied Laysan finch (upper left), Laysan honeycreeper (upper middle), and Laysan rail (below), 1903; the latter two are extinct. In 1899, Schauinsland considered the Laysan honeycreeper an example of how a new species may arise through isolation and noted its resemblance to the ʻapapane. [13]
Laysan albatross Wisdom was spotted with her new partner and egg at a Pacific Ocean refuge.
In the era following western contact, habitat loss and avian disease are thought to have had the greatest effect on endemic bird species in Hawaii, although native peoples are implicated in the loss of dozens of species before the arrival of Captain Cook and others, in large part due to the arrival of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) which ...
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