Birds of the National Parks in Hawaii
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About This Book
When the Hawaiian Islands were first studied by ornithologists in the nineteenth century, they were a bird paradise. The forests abounded with many of the most unusual birds known to the world—some with enormous sickle-shaped bills, some resembling parrots, a goose that spent most of its life on barren lava flows, a tiny flightless rail, and a sea bird that nested within the vents of the active volcanoes. Most of these island birds were found nowhere else in the world.Today many of the original island species are extinct, while others are barely managing to hold their own. With more and more l...
Chapters (51)
- BIRDS of the NATIONAL PARKS in HAWAII
- INTRODUCTION
- HOW THE BIRDS CAME
- Endemics
- Migrants and Sea Birds
- Exotics
- THE DECLINE OF NATIVE BIRDS
- WHERE TO SEE THE BIRDS
- Kilauea-Mauna Loa
- Haleakala
- THE NATIONAL PARKS
- ABOUT THIS BOOKLET
- DARK-RUMPED PETREL Pterodroma phaeopygia (Hawaiian name—uau)
- WHITE-TAILED TROPIC-BIRD Phaëthon lepturus (Hawaiian name—koae)
- NENE Branta sandvicensis (also Hawaiian goose)
- IO Buteo solitarius (also Hawaiian hawk)
- CALIFORNIA QUAIL Lophortyx californicus
- CHUKAR Alectoris graeca
- RING-NECKED PHEASANT Phasianus colchicus torquatus (also Chinese pheasant)
- JAPANESE BLUE PHEASANT Phasianus colchicus versicolor (also versicolor or green pheasant)
- AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER Pluvialis dominica (Hawaiian name—kolea)
- RUDDY TURNSTONE Arenaria interpres (Hawaiian name—akekeke)
- WANDERING TATTLER Heteroscelus incanum (Hawaiian name—ulili)
- WHITE-CAPPED NODDY Anoüs tenuirostris (Hawaiian name—noio)
- SPOTTED DOVE Streptopelia chinensis (also laceneck or Chinese dove)
- BARRED DOVE Geopelia striata
- PUEO Asio flammeus (also Hawaiian short-eared owl)
- SKYLARK Alauda arvensis
- CHINESE THRUSH Trochalopterum canorum (also spectacled thrush)
- RED-BILLED LEIOTHRIX Leiothrix lutea (also Japanese hill robin or Peking nightingale)
- MOCKINGBIRD Mimus polyglottos
- OMAO Phaeornis obscura (also Hawaiian thrush)
- ELEPAIO Chasiempsis sandwichensis
- MYNAH Acridotheres tristis
- WHITE-EYE Zosterops palpibrosus (also mejiro)
- AMAKIHI Loxops virens
- HAWAIIAN CREEPER Loxops maculata
- OU Psittirostra psittacea
- APAPANE Himatione sanguinea
- IIWI Vestiaria coccinea
- RICEBIRD Munia nisoria
- HOUSE SPARROW Passer domesticus (also English sparrow)
- CARDINAL Richmondena cardinalis
- HOUSE FINCH Carpodacus mexicanus (also linnet or papaya bird)
- OTHER BIRDS
- Accidentals
- Formerly Recorded
- Status Uncertain
- INDEX
- OTHER PARK NATURE BOOKLETS
- NOTES
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