Drepanis funerea

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PASSERIFORMES	FRINGILLIDAE

Scientific Name:

Drepanis funerea

Species Authority:

Newton, 1893

Common Name/s:

English

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Black Mamo

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

History:

2004	–	Extinct
2000	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct
1988	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Drepanis funerea was only ever seen in forest understorey on Moloka`i, Hawai`i, USA, although fossils are known from the adjacent Maui². The species was last collected in 1907 and intensive searches in the subsequent few decades could find no sign of it³.

Range Description:

Drepanis funerea was only ever seen in forest understorey on Moloka`i, Hawai`i, USA, although fossils are known from the adjacent Maui². The species was last collected in 1907 and intensive searches in the subsequent few decades could find no sign of it³.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabited the understory of wet forests where it fed on nectar.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its extinction was probably largely caused by the destruction of its understorey habitat by introduced cattle and deer, and predation by rats and mongooses¹.

Major Threat(s):

Its extinction was probably largely caused by the destruction of its understorey habitat by introduced cattle and deer, and predation by rats and mongooses¹.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Drepanis funerea. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 08 February 2012.
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