Anna coat bird
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Anna's clothes bird ( Ciridops anna ) |
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The Anna clothes bird ( Ciridops anna ), also known as the Kohala clothes bird , is an extinct clothes bird from the also extinct genus Ciridops . It was discovered in 1859, described in 1879 by the lawyer and later Hawaiian governor Sanford Dole and named after his wife Anna Cate Dole. The Hawaiians call it ʻUla-ʻAi-Hawane, which means something like "the red bird that feeds on the Hawane berry". It was endemic to the main island of Hawaii .
description
The Anna clothes bird reached a length of 12.5 centimeters. It had a finch-like appearance with a short, thick beak. The top of the head and neck were a silvery gray. The forehead, beak, and reins were black. The throat and sides of the head were dashed black and gray. The back was tinted brown. The tail, wings, and chest were black. The elytra, the belly and the rump were red. The wings of the hand had pink outside flags. The eyes were hazel and the legs were pink.
Habitat and way of life
The Anna coat bird lived in the districts of Kona and Hilo as well as on Kohala on the main island of Hawaii. The ornithologist Robert Cyril Layton Perkins described the species as a shy, difficult to catch bird. He lived in forests in the hills and mountains and lived on the berries and flower nectar of the Hawane tree ( Pritchardia spp.).
die out
Little is known about the reasons for its extinction. It was already described as rare when it was discovered. Presumably, the scarcity of food has played an important role, since many species of the Pritchardia plant genus are either extinct or very rare. The last specimen was shot by a bird collector on February 20, 1892 on the Awini River in the Kohala area. In 1937 ornithologist George Campbell Munro claims to have seen another specimen of this species, but later he was no longer sure whether it really was the Anna clothes bird. Today only five museum pieces remain in the museums of Harvard , Honolulu , New York and London .
literature
- Greenway, James Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World , Dover Publications Inc. New York, 1967, ISBN 0-486-21869-4
- Errol Fuller Extinct Birds , 2000, ISBN 0-8160-1833-2
- Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals, Atlantic Monthly Press , New York, 2001 ISBN 0-87113-797-6 .
- David Day The Doomsday Book of Animals , Ebury Press, London, 1981, ISBN 0-670-27987-0
- Dieter Luther: The extinct birds of the world . Westarp Sciences, 1986, ISBN 3-89432-213-6 .
- Edwin Antonius: Lexicon of extinct birds and mammals . Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-931587-76-2 .
- The Auk Notes and News PDF full text
- James, Helen F. & Olson, Storrs L. (1991): Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 46 : 1-92. PDF full text
Web links
- Ciridops anna in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed on December 20 of 2008.
- Annotated List of Hawaiʻiʻs Extinct Birds
- Entry at Natureserve