Millerbird

The Millerbird is a species of Old World warbler in the family Acrocephalidae. It had two subspecies, A. f. kingi and A f. familiaris. The latter, the Laysan Millerbird, became extinct sometime between 1916 and 1923. The former, the critically endangered Nihoa Millerbird, remains the only race left, inhabiting the small island Nihoa in Hawaiʻi. It is the only Old World warbler to have colonised Hawaiʻi, although there is no fossil evidence that the species ever had a distribution beyond these two islands.

The Millerbird is classified as Critically Endangered (CR), facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

The small, drab Millerbird is the only Old World warbler (subfamily Sylviinae) known to have colonized the Hawaiian Archipelago. Scant information exists on this bird because the population that occurred on Laysan Island was little observed by naturalists prior to its extinction in 1923. The population that remains on Nihoa Island is seldom observed due to the extreme inaccessibility of the island and concerns about human activity negatively impacting fragile seabird colonies and endemic species. More

ultima) and the endangered Nihoa millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris kingi), and several species of seabirds, such as terns, shearwaters, petrels, boobies, albatrosses, tropic birds, and frigate birds. Endemic endangered plants include the Nihoa fan palm (Pritchardia remota), the only species of tree on the island, and the leguminous 'ohai shrub (Sesbania tomentosa). Most of the ridges are covered with two species of grass and the valleys are densely covered with shrubs and bushes. More

millerbird pronunciation /ˈmɪl ərˌbɜrd/ Show Spelled Show IPA –nouna rare, small, gray-brown, thin-billed warbler, Acrocephalus familiaris, occurring only on the Hawaiian islet of Nihoa: the subspecies that inhabited the islet of Laysan is now extinct. Use millerbird in a SentenceSee images of millerbirdSearch millerbird on the Web - Origin: miller + bird Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010. More

The Millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Acrocephalidae. It had two subspecies, A. f. kingi and A f. familiaris. The latter, the Laysan Millerbird, became extinct sometime between 1916 and 1923. The former, the critically endangered Nihoa Millerbird, remains the only race left, inhabiting the small island Nihoa in Hawaiʻi. More

The Nihoa Millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris kingi) is a subspecies of the Millerbird. It gets its name from its preferred food, the Miller moth. The five-inch long Millerbird has dark, sepia-colored feathers, white belly, and dark beak. Its geographic range is limited to the tiny island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The Nihoa Millerbird is one of the two endemic birds remaining on Nihoa, the other being the Nihoa Finch. More

The Nihoa Millerbird is a reclusive species, foraging for insects in dense brush. The male sings from an exposed perch. . Photo by S. Conant Click on image for a larger view. - This page last revised 11 August 2001 by nle Copyright information: Sound file copyright 1995 Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Used with permission. More

The Nihoa Millerbird spends most of its time near the ground foraging for insects. the single known population on Nihoa only has between 300 and 700 birds. More

millerbird "Lookin for new friends, and go from there. More

The Laysan Millerbird became extinct around 1923 as a result of the introduced European rabbit’s depredations on the vegetation of Laysan Island. The Nihoa form is endemic to the remote island of Nihoa, only 63 ha in size, of which 40 are vegetated, the rest being rock or bare soil. The island is part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge and can be visited only with access permits. It is steep and rocky, with low, scrubby vegetation, rising to 277 m. More

A small and unremarkable warbler, the Laysan millerbird is so-named as it ate large numbers of moths, known as ‘millers’ on Laysan Island. It had a thin bill and was brown above, being darkest on the crown, and white below. It had a simple song of ... More

Laysan millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris familiaris) = Species information - * Facts & Status * Description * Range & Habitat * Biology * Threats & Conservation * Glossary & References * All * * Back to media More

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Nihoa Millerbird The Nihoa Millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris kingi) is a subspecies of the Millerbird. It is limited to and one of the two endemic birds of the tiny island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The other endemic bird is the Nihoa Finch. It gets its name from its preferred food, the miller moth. The five-inch long bird has dark, sepia-colored feathers, white belly, and dark beak. See more at Wikipedia.org... More

course the Nihoa Millerbird and Po'o-uli have both been discovered since then. When Palner visited the island a few years before they missed the Millerbird as they were unable to land. Judge Sanford B. Dole spoke of a picnic party landing on the island in the 1880's and of seeing this species then. The Nihoa Finch is very similar to the Laysan Finch but smaller. The male has a bright yellow head, neck, and breast with a broad grey band between the neck and mid-back. More

The latter, the Laysan Millerbird, became extinct sometime between 1916 and 1923. The former, the critically endangered Nihoa Millerbird, remains the only race left, inhabiting the small island Nihoa in Hawaiʻi. It is the only Old World warbler to have colonised Hawaiʻi, although there is no fossil evidence that the species ever had a distribution beyond these two islands. Millerbirds form long-term pair bonds and defend territories over a number of years. Territories can be as large as 0.95 hectares (2. More

Nihoa Millerbird / Acrocephalus familiaris kingi Photo of Nihoa millerbird The Nihoa millerbird is a tiny land bird measuring approximately 5 inches in length that was discovered on the island of Nihoa in 1923. Another subspecies once occurred on Laysan Island, where it went extinct in the early 20th century after the island was devegetated by introduced rabbits. It has dark gray-brown feathers above, a buffy-white belly, and a thin dark colored bill. More

The small, drab Millerbird is the only Old World warbler (subfamily Sylviinae) known to have colonized the Hawaiian Archipelago. Scant information exists on ... audubon2.org * Millerbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Acrocephalidae. It had two subspecies, A. f. More

Millerbird Acrocephalus familiaris = Described by: Rothschild (1892) Alternate common name(s): Laysan Millerbird, Nihoa Millerbird, Hawaiian Reed-warbler Old scientific name(s): Acrocephalus kingi Photographs No photographs are available for this species Range W. Hawaiian Is.; Two widely separated populations; Restricted range; (1) Nihoa Is. (2) Formerly on Laysan Is. More

Also, the Laysan Millerbird had become extinct. The Tanager Expedition, which arrived in 1923, exterminated the remaining rabbits. By then, the bird population had been reduced to about one tenth of its former size and many plant species had been erased. The Laysan Duck and the Laysan Finch, two other endemic species, survive to this day but are endangered. More

Laysan Millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris familiaris) = * last in 1923 on Laysan Island * very tame island beach/scrub ground-nesting insectivore endemic to Laysan, Hawaiian Islands * specimens in Boston, Denver, Chicago, Honolulu, New York, Pittsburgh * More