Kioea (Chaetoptila angustipluma)

Year Last Seen:

1859

Comments:

This species was known from the Hawaiian Islands, USA, but it has not been recorded since a specimen was collected in 1859. Deforestation, hunting and introduced predators are likely to have contributed to this species' extinction.

Habitat:

It was restricted to montane plateau forest and fed on nectar (Amante-Helweg et al. 2009).

Causes:

Deforestation, hunting and introduced predators are likely to have contributed to this species' extinction.

Distribution:

Chaetoptila angustipluma is known historically only from the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. Only four specimens were ever collected, between 1840 and 1859 (Greenway 1967).

References:

IUCN Redbook Data