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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 ...
The Laysan honeycreeper was endemic to Laysan, a remote island that has a total land area of 3.6 km 2 (1.4 sq mi), and is the largest of the northwestern Hawaiian Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. Laysan is the eroded remnant of a once high island, built up by volcanic activity, perhaps the flattened top of a volcano that formed in the ...
Pages in category "Extinct birds of Hawaii" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total. ... Laysan millerbird; Laysan rail; Lesser ʻakialoa;
The Laysan rail or Laysan crake (Zapornia palmeri) was a flightless bird endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan. This small island was and still is an important seabird colony, and sustained a number of endemic species, including the rail. It became extinct due to habitat loss by domestic rabbits, and ultimately World War II.
Laysan is generally regarded as the "gem" of the NWHI, with the most biodiversity. It is home to the Laysan duck, the rarest duck in the world. [19] The other native land bird of Laysan is the Laysan finch, an opportunistic hunter. Eighteen other bird species nest there and use Lake Laysan, the only lake in the NWHI, as a rest stop or breeding ...
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 ...
The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the approximate age of 74, US biologists say. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was filmed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at the Midway ...
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.