Hawaii’s answer to the cardinal is a perfect, scarlet, nectar-sipping
beauty called the ‘I’iwi — but you should see it soon, if you want to see
it at all. The ‘I’iwi and its extremely rare relatives are being wiped out
by mosquitoes, climate change, and rats, a new study says. Six species on
the island of Kauai are in danger of going extinct The ‘I’iwi belongs to a
family of brightly colored songbirds called the Hawaiian honeycreepers,
which are unique to the remote Hawaiian archipelago. They descended from a
small group of finches that arrived sometime between 7.2 and 5.8 milli... ... more »
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