Hoopoe-billed ʻAkialoa

Hoopoe-billed ʻAkialoa

Taxobox
name = Hoopoe-billed 'Akialoa
status = EX
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Drepanididae
genus = "Akialoa"
species = "A. upupirostris"
binomial = "Akialoa. upupirostris "
synonyms = "Hemignathus upupirostris"
It was a member of the Akialoa genus of birds. It is known as the largest discovered honeycreeper yet. It is 12½ inches in size, the second largest Hawaiian Honeyceeper is the recently discovered Kauai Gosbeak, which was a stocky-like bird of 11 in. This bird was special because it is the largest known of the Hawaiian Honeycreepers that ever existed. It was 12 and a half inches length with a long curved bill that allowed it to sip the nectar of the longest of flowers in the island chain, the Lobelia. It was another flimsy bird like its far relative, the Oval-billed Nukupu’u. Like the Oval-billed Nukupu’u, it too was going out like a candle. Due to the fact that the lobelias were being cut away, a major part of its diet was vanishing the bird began to have looked harder for a meal. The bird may have been part of the locals’ diet and rats would also have created problems for this bird. Around the same time as the Oval-billed Nukupu’u did, the Hopoee-billed Akialoa went extinct. It went extinct for the same reasons as well.


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