Sentences with phrase «of honeycreepers»

At least four species of honeycreepers can be seen regularly.

The disease will likely lead to extinction of several remnant species of honeycreepers unless something is done to decrease the burden of the parasite to native birds.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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.

The settlement capped a decade - long effort by the Center's scientists, attorneys and activists to safeguard 1,000 of America's most imperiled, least protected species including the walrus, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, fisher, New England cottontail rabbit, three species of sage grouse, scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper, California golden trout, Miami blue butterfly, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, 403 southeastern river - dependent species, 42 Great Basin springsnails and 32 Pacific Northwest mollusks.

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).

Problem Hawaii has the highest number of endangered birds in the US due in part to avian malaria, a parasite introduced into Hawaii that is causing disproportionate mortality in native forest birds, particularly 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».

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

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

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.