Black mamo

It measured 8 inches from bill to tail, and was black with faded white primaries and yellow at the base of the bill. The highly decurved bill was longer in the male. Often the forehead would be dusted with pollen of its favorite food, the Lobelia. The Mamo song was a group of nose whistles that sounded like a flute along with a long held out trill. This bird has had many names including Molokai Mamo, O’o nuku’umu, which meant O’o with sucking beak, and Perking’s Mamo, after ornithologist RC.

The Black mamo is classified as Extinct (EX), there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.

black mamo died out as a result of pressure by introduced predators, habitat destruction and modification as well as possibly introduced diseases for which it had no immunity. More

Black mamos lived like everything else on Hawaii, taking it easy, hanging loose More

Black MamoDrepanis funerea Order PASSERIFORMES – Family FRINGILLIDAE Issue No. 640b Authors: Pratt, H. Douglas * Articles * Multimedia * References Courtesy Preview This Introductory article that you are viewing is a courtesy preview of the full life history account of this species. The remaining articles (Distribution, Habitat, Behavior, etc. More

Black Mamo (Drepanis funerea) Conservation status Extinct (1907) (IUCN 3. More

Black Mamo (Drepanis funerea) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Parvorder: Passerida Family: Fringillidae Subfamily: Drepanidinae Tribe: Drepanidini More

right - the last black mamo was seen just 14 years later, in 1907. Perkins observed sticky yellow pollen on the foreheads of the Balck mamo and concluded that they must have fed on the yellow lobeliad flowers in the area. Illustation from Wilson & Evans' "Aves Hawaiiensis". More

The Black MaMo was captured for the use of the few golden feathers from the bird More

Black Mamo - Drepanis funerea = IUCN Status: Extinct IUCN Species Profile Black Mamo: Black Mamo Scientific name: Drepanis funerea. Common Name: Black Mamo, or Perkin's Mamo. Hawaiian Name(s): O'o nuku'umu, Hoa. USFWS Status: Extinct. ... http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/endangered/ext-birds.html Hawaii's Extinct Species-Birds: 1923. Drepanis pacifica, Hawaiian Mamo, 1898. Drepanis funerea, Black Mamo, 1907. Hemignathus obscurus lanaiensis, Lanai `Akialoa, 1894. Hemignathus ... http://www.merchantamerica.com/cher/index. More

enough, the last verifiable black mamo sighting was made by another biologist only 14 years later in 1907—just before the biologist shot the bird. I quote from his field notes: "To my joy I found the mangled remains hanging in the tree in a thick bunch of leaves, six feet or more beyond where it had been sitting. It was, as I feared, very badly mutilated. However, it was made into a very fair cabinet skin. More

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Original File Name: Black Mamo (Drepanis funerea)-Keulemans. More

Black Mamo General Information The Black Mamo (D. funerea) is an extinct species of finch that once inhabited the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i. It was about 8 inches and length and appeared similar to the Hawai'i Mamo but was entirely black except for the white primary shafts on the wings. The bill was more sharply decurved than the former species and had a small yellowy spot near the base (on the operculum). See more at Wikipedia.org... More

Embed this Topic The Black Mamo (Drepanis funerea) is an extinct bird species once endemic to the island of Molokai, although there is fossil evidence of it having lived on Maui. It measured 8 inches (20 cm) from bill to tail, and was black with faded white primaries and yellow at the base of the bill. The highly decurved bill was longer in the male. Often the forehead would be dusted with pollen of its favorite food, the Lobelia. The Mamo song was a group of nos... More

What we know about the black mamo comes almost exclusively from the account of R.C.L. Perkins (1903). He believed that in most respects, including the voice, this species closely resembled the Hawaii mamo, Drepanis pacifica. Adults' plumage is lustreless black apart from a whitish patch on its outer webs of primaries. The bill was black but with a patch of yellow at the base of the maxilla. Its iris was yellowish brown and the legs and feet were black. More

The Black Mamo (Drepanis funerea), was discovered in 1893 in the Pelekuna Valley, on the island of Molokai, where it was once found in the high forests of the peaks. There is fossil evidence of this species on the island of Maui. It was shot down many times for collections because of what the bird looked like. More

feathers, the hoa, or Black Mamo, was given the scientific name funerea because of its somber dull-black plumage. Like many other members of the honey creeper family, it was a nectar feeder, and had a long, curved bill to reach inside lobelia flowers. The hoa was found only on Moloka`i, was last seen in 1907, and is extinct. More

Black Mamo (Drepanis funerea) = * last collected by A. Bryan in June 1907 at Moanui, Molokai "To my joy I found the mangled remains hanging in the tree in a thick bunch of leaves, six feet or more beyond where it had been sitting. More

Hawaii Black Mamo (Drepanis pacifica) = * last collected 16 April 1892 by Mr. Westerholme at Hilo; last observed in 1898 by H. More