Curly tails

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Curly tails
Ear tuft moho (Moho bishopi)

Ear tuft moho ( Moho bishopi )

Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination : Songbirds (passeri)
without rank: Passerida
Superfamily : Bombycilloidea
Family : Mohoidae
Genre : Curly tails
Scientific name
Moho
Lesson , 1830

The Kraus tails , Mohos or 'Ō'ō ( Moho ) are a kind of four extinct birds that the endemic in Hawaii were. Three species had shiny black plumage with tufts of yellow feathers under the wings. A fourth species - the scaly throat moho - was mostly black. Like the clothes birds , the curly tails were considered to be “king birds ”, from whose feathers precious colorful capes or robes were made for the aristocratic classes. Thousands of birds were caught for this purpose. Reasons for their disappearance were hunting, habitat destruction through deforestation, introduced animal species and the bird malaria introduced by mosquitoes. The Krausschwanz species died out within 150 years.

Taxonomy

The following species belonged to this genus:

  • Krausschwanzmoho , Weißtip-Krausschwanz or Oʻahu ʻŌʻō ( Moho apicalis ) - Extinct approx. 1837
  • Ear -tufted moho , Molokai-Krausschwanz or Molokaʻi ʻŌʻō ( Moho bishopi ) - Extinct around 1904
  • Magnificent moho, Hawaiian curled tail, or Hawaiʻi ʻŌʻō ( Moho nobilis ) - Extinct around 1934
  • Scaly throated moho, Kauai curly tail or Kauaiʻi ʻŌʻō ( Moho braccatus ) - Extinct around 1987

gallery

literature

  • Tim Flannery, Peter Schouten: A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals . Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-87113-797-6 .
  • Errol Fuller: Extinct Birds . 2000, ISBN 0-8160-1833-2 .
  • David Day: The Doomsday Book of Animals. A Natural History of Vanished Species . Viking Press, New York NY 1981, ISBN 0-670-27987-0 .
  • James C. Greenway: Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World . Dover Publications Inc., New York 1967, ISBN 0-486-21869-4 .
  • Dieter Luther: The extinct birds of the world . Westarp Sciences, 1986, ISBN 3-89432-213-6 .
  • Robert C. Fleischer , Helen F. James and Storrs L. Olson: Convergent Evolution of Hawaiian and Australo-Pacific Honeyeaters from Distant Songbird Ancestors. Current Biology 18, 1-5, December 23, 2008 doi : 10.1016 / j.cub.2008.10.051 .

Web links

Commons : Krausschwänze ( Moho )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files