Curly tail moho
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Kraustailmoho ( Moho apicalis ) |
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The Krausschwanzmoho ( Moho apicalis ), also known as the white-tipped Krausschwanz or Oʻahu ʻŌʻō , is a species of bird from the extinct genus of the Krausschwanz .
description
The males reached a length of 30.5 centimeters. The wing length was 10.5 to 11.4 centimeters, the beak was between 3.5 and 3.8 centimeters long and the length of the barrel was 3.4 to 3.8 centimeters. The females were smaller. The plumage was predominantly soot-black. The tail feathers were brown and, with the exception of the two central ones, had white tips. Further characteristics were the tufted white axillary feathers and the two narrow central tail feathers, which merged into fine hair-shaped or fibrous tips. On the flanks and the under tail-coverts it was colored deep yellow. The bill and barrel were black. Nothing is known about his way of life and behavior.
habitat
Its habitat was the mountain forests of the island of Oahu in the Hawaii archipelago.
die out
When John Gould first scientifically described the Krausschwanzmoho in 1860, it was already considered lost. In 1837 the German naturalist Ferdinand Deppe collected three specimens of this species in the hills behind the capital Honolulu . This was the final evidence. After failed expeditions between the years 1880 and 1890 under the direction of ornithologist Robert Cyril Leighton Perkins, the Krausschwanzmoho was declared extinct. Today there are seven copies in the museum collections of Berlin , New York City , London and Cambridge (Massachusetts) . The reasons for its extinction were probably avian diseases caused by mosquitoes, deforestation, rats, vegetation destruction by domestic cattle and goats, and hunting.
literature
- James C. Greenway: 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
Web links
- Oahu Nature Tours - Oahu OʻO (Moho apicalis)
- BirdLife species factsheet - Moho apicalis (Engl.)
- Moho apicalis in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 30 of 2009.