Sentences with word «honeycreeper»

«Their data show alarming declines in population and geographic ranges of endemic Hawaiian honeycreepers on the island of Kauai,» she says.

Some of the birds we hope to see include Red - legged Honeycreepers, Tanagers, Tityras, and Parrots.

Losing Kauai's endemic honeycreepers «would definitely cost us in terms of our opportunities to study, understand and appreciate nature.»

Drawing lessons with David Sibley, while observing the colorful tanagers and honeycreepers at the fruit trays, was also a superb opportunity.

Other trails take you to scenic ridges, through forests of twisting koa trees, and up to one of Bogue's favorite spots: the Alakai Swamp, where rare native birds like the scythe - beaked Hawaiian honeycreeper flit around above shallow bogs.

Scientists can also help by developing genetically modified mosquitoes and figuring out why honeycreepers are so susceptible to avian malaria — and how to protect them from it, James notes.

The fast and furious adaptive radiation of honeycreepers rivals that of finches on the Galápagos Islands, another case study in how natural selection marches at double time in the confines of isolated islands.

Examples: Hawaiian honeycreepers infested with feather lice, birds in Puerto Rico afflicted by Philornis flies and the endangered Florida scrub jay parasitized by fleas.

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Hawaiian honeycreepers once filled the forests of Hawaii, but habitat destruction, the introduction of predatory birds and mammals, and avian malaria led to the extinction of at least 8 of the original 23 species.

Managed by the Belize Audubon Society, the park is home to over 200 species of native Belizean birds including the unusual exotic species of slaty antwren, piratic flycatcher, red - legged honeycreeper, tody motmot, and northern nightingale wren.

Final Decision (if proposed): Scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper («i «iwi), relict leopard frog, Tahoe yellow cress.

Kauai lost at least eight species of honeycreepers — as well as several other «marvelous species» of birds, James notes — before people began keeping good records of the island's fauna.

Even without avian diseases and climate change, the honeycreepers still face threats from habitat loss, introduced predators and competition with non-native birds (some of whom, such as the Japanese bush - warbler, are thriving on the plateau, the study finds).

16 genera and 36 species, including seedeaters and finches, have been moved from their previous homes into the Thraupidae family for the opposite reason, and the Hawaiian honeycreepers (part of the Fringillidae family) have experienced a similar reorganization.

The honeycreepers that are left on the island are declining fast, and some species could disappear in as little as a decade.

The iiwi is one of six species of forest birds, all honeycreepers, that are endemic to the island of Kauai — and disappearing fast.

Reducing those threats could buy the honeycreepers some time to adapt to the growing threat of disease.

All six are honeycreepers, and four are now found only in small, remote parts of the plateau.

«The Hawaiian honeycreepers are a classic example of adaptive radiation in animals, second only to Darwin's finches,» she says.

Hawaiian honeycreepers are a marvel of evolution.

Meanwhile, Floyd Reed, a biologist at the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, has been working on a different kind of drive system called underdominance to prevent the Culex mosquitoes introduced to Hawaii from spreading avian malaria to endangered birds, including the Hawaiian honeycreeper.

Progress might not even be fast enough to save the honeycreeper.

Examples of adaptive radiation can be found in: the Galapagos finches, Australia's marsupials, Hawaii's honeycreepers and fruit flies, Madagascar's carnivores and other mammals, New Zealand's birds and the prehistoric flying pterosaurs.

It is threatened by climate change, which is causing mosquitoes that carry introduced diseases — including avian pox and malaria — to move into the honeycreeper's higher - elevations refuges.

Instead of needing to spend years developing cultured cells, the foundation to this work is breeding birds in captivity — something already up and running for many of the world's rarest birds (e.g. Kakapo, Attwater's Prairie Chicken, various Hawaiian honeycreepers).

«We think that being able to break this constraint - letting the beak evolve independently from the braincase, may have been a key factor in enabling the rapid and explosive evolution of the thousands of species of songbirds such as Darwin's finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers».

Even if you don't feel like walking the loop trail, Hosmer Grove is a great place to watch and listen for Hawaiian honeycreepers.

At least four species of honeycreepers can be seen regularly.

Some honeycreepers have long, curved bills to extract nectar, others developed thin, warbler - like bills for picking bugs from the foliage.

The honeycreeper is a family of birds that are all closely related but have evolved into different species according to their preferred habitat and diet.

We will make stops along the way to view such birds as the Collared Manakins and Honeycreepers an array of flycatchers etc..

Other photographic subjects include colorful birds like the Cherie's Tanager, Red - legged Honeycreepers, Toucans, and assorted hummingbirds.

Birds nesting on low - lying islands being inundated by sea level rise — black - footed albatross, laysan albatross — and even the Hawaiian honeycreeper, which lives at higher altitudes, is being threatened by climate change too, in weird ways.

Others look at Australia's golden bowerbird, Brazil's cerrado plants, Hawaii's honeycreepers (small birds), or Antarctic mollusks (snails).