Soot mamo
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The soot mamo ( Drepanis funerea ), also known as the black mamo or Oo-nuku-umu by the Hawaiians , is an extinct Hawaiian hawk bird .
description
The soot mamo reached a length of 20 cm. The plumage was generally dull black. The wings of the hand had gray edges. The bill and legs were black. The long beak was curved into a sickle shape. The upper half of the beak towered over the lower half of the beak. The male's beak was longer than that of the female.
Occurrence and way of life
The soot mamo was endemic to the undergrowth and middle tree regions of the rainforests on Moloka'i . It never flew more than ten feet above the ground. His diet consisted of nectar from the Hawaiian lobelia and Ohiʻa trees. He was a curious and trusting bird. Little is known about its breeding biology, except that it built its nests in the undergrowth, where the ground was soft and muddy.
die out
When it was discovered by Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in 1893, the soot mamo was described as very rare. In June 1907 ornithologist William Alanson Bryan collected the last three specimens. Possible reasons for its extinction were the destruction of the undergrowth vegetation by deer and cattle as well as eggs and nestlings being eaten by imported mongooses and rats.
literature
- James 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 0871137976 .
- David Day: The Doomsday Book of Animals , Ebury Press, London 1981, ISBN 0670279870 .
- 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
- Drepanis funerea in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.