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The Hawaiian Amakihi is a variety of honeycreeper like the Apapane. It is one of Hawaii's indigenous bird species. These birds all derived from a single finch like ancestor over about 3 millions years, developing into a varied group of colorful birds that thrive on nectar and insects. The phenomenon is called adaptive radiation. Changes in environment can open up new challenges, environmental niches, and provide new and different resources. This leads living organisms present at the time to develop into a multitude of new forms. Now isn't that interesting! #ILoveScience #ILoveNature #ILoveWildlife #WildlifePhotography in #Hawaii #Nature on the #HawaiianIslands #HawaiiPacificParks #HiPacParks #HawaiiVolcanoesNationalPark #Honeycreepers #HawaiianHoneycreepers #Amakihi #birds #birding #Photooftheday #Picoftheday
Pu`u O Kila Kalalau Valley Viewpoint
The Ohia at the base of the ramp to the overlook is in full bloom. At any one time there are dozens of Japanese White-eyes feeding on it. Apapane are frequent visitors as well as an occasional Amakihi
Haleakala NP - Hosmer Grove, Maui, Hawaii USA. HAAM is a species of Hawaiian Honeycreepers. Population is stable and is resistant to avian malaria. It has a wide diet, nectar feeders, can suck juice from fruit and gleans spiders/insects on leaves.
This is a special birding place. It's a hidden gem and a perfect habitat for Amakihi, Iiwi, and Apapane. The trees, steep slope topography, vegetation are just so beautiful that you just sit down on the bench and watch all the bird action unfold in front of your eyes. If you ever visit Maui, and watching the sun rise or set at the top of Haleakala (elevation just above 10,000 FT) is on your agenda, be sure to stop in the Hosmer Grove on the way up/down. Sunrise/Sunsets are spectacular!
Apapane.... that's the name of this crimson songbird, a type of Hawaiian Honeycreeper. As such, they spend their time in the canopies of the ōhiʻa lehua trees, drinking nectar from the flowers. It would be less of a problem if most of these trees were not absolutely huge! Trying to find a tree low enough and a bird interested enough in that low tree is simply a nightmare. Besides, these birds are tiny! Hawaii is a birder's paradise. The chorus of bird songs each morning is one of nature's greatest symphonies, but for a bird photographer it's something altogether different and at times nothing short of a nightmare. I was happy to catch a photo of this little precious creature as it peered around a branch in a search for nectar. Oh and I finally photographed a bird endemic to Hawaii! #ILoveBirds #ILoveNature #ILoveWildlife #WildlifePhotography in #Hawaii #Nature in the #HawaiianIslands #Birds #Birding #Apapane #HawaiianHoneycreepers
Pāpala, Pāpala kēpau
Australasian catchbird tree, Australasian catchbirdtree
Nyctaginaceae (Four O'Clock family)
Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi Maui, and Hawaiʻi Island)
Oʻahu (Cultivated)
Hawaiian Names:
The name pāpala also is used for the native species of Charpentiera.
"Hawaiian Dictionaries" defines kēpau as "lead, pitch, tar, resin, pewter; gum, as on ripe breadfruit; any sticky juice, as of pāpala."
Pāpala kēpau are truly fascinating plants with a sad, but interesting, cultural history. A sinistral use for the sticky fruit was to trap native birds. [6] The captured victims provided feathers for the strikingly colorful cloaks (capes), helmets, lei, images and kāhili. Birds such as 'ō'ō and mamo were plucked of their few moulting yellow feathers and set free to grow more for the next season. However, this was not the case with the 'i'iwi and 'apapane which were covered with red- or green-colored feathers and would not have survived the plucking. They were captured, plucked and eaten.
Medicinally, early Hawaiians used the milky sap from pāpala kēpau was used for cuts. The cooked leaves were used to cure pāʻaoʻao (childhood disease with physical weakening) and for lepo paʻa (constipation).
They also used an adhesive gum from pāpala kēpau for repairing bowls.
Etymology
The former generic name Pisonia is named for William Piso (ca. 1611-1678), Dutch physician, pharmacist, botanist, and early writer on medicinal plants of Brazil.
Regarding the specific epithet "The Names of Plants" makes this comment:
"Brunonia, brunonianus -a -um, brunonis Smaethman’s* name to commemorate Robert Brown (vide infra) (Brunoniaceae) brunonianus -a -um, brunonis -is -e for Robert Brown FRS (1773–1858), English botanist."
* Henry Smeathman (1742–1786) was an English naturalist. He spend four years in and around the Sierra Leone studying the natural history.
A freak windstorm blew a bunch of birds (Apapane, Amakihi, and Iiwi) out of the forest and into our place in Olinda, Maui (2700 ft.).
Normally we don't have any native forest birds here, because of mosquitoes. The birds hung out for a few days and then made their way back up the mountain after the wind subsided.
The image is distorted because we took the photo from inside our house through a screened window. The ohia we planted.
Pihea Trail, Kaua`i, Hawai`i
This bird is visiting native Clermontia faurei flowers. Known as `ai`akamanu in Hawaiian, it means food of the birds. It's aptly named because three of our endemic honeycreepers, `Amakihi, `I`iwi, and occasionally `Apapane, take nectar from it. It grows in abundance from Jan-April along the upper reaches of the Pihea and Alaka`i Swamp Trails. The `Amakihi is a circuit feeder. On this day it paid a visit to the same flower about every 45 min. A great situation for a photographer with enough patience to lay in wait.
Sadly, researchers predict that the Kaua`i `Amakihi will be extinct by the year 2050. Avian malaria and pox have reduced it's numbers to a mere fraction of what it was 30 years ago.
This nectar feeding member of the honeycreeper family, with its brilliant scarlet body plumage and black wings and tail, abounds in the forest canopy where ‘ōhi‘a lehua blossoms are plentiful. The ‘i‘iwi's long, down curved, orange bill is specialized for sipping nectar from tubular flowers. The ‘i‘iwi’s "squeaky hinge” call can be heard throughout the forest when the birds are present.
Their diet consists primarily of nectar, but ‘i‘iwi also eat small arthropods.
Both sexes defend small nesting territories and may defend important nectar resources. Courtship chases and feeding may precede breeding. Nest sites are in terminal branches of ‘ōhi‘a trees and both sexes build the open-cup nest. Only females incubate eggs (typically two) and brood young. Young are mostly provisioned by female; males feed females off the nest.
Although ‘i‘iwi populations appear stable on the islands of Hawai‘i, Maui, and Kaua‘i, they are likely susceptible to the same factors that threaten other native Hawaiian forest birds, including: loss and degradation of habitat, predation by introduced mammals, and disease.
Right place, wrong bird! I was setup with the late afternoon light behind me and focused on a cluster of lehua flowers waiting for an Apapane to return, but instead this house sparrow came by.
They are found on all main islands, primarily in native forest. Common on Hawai`i, Maui, and Kaua`i, uncommon on O`ahu, rare on Lana`i.
`Apapane are 5 inches. Both sexes look similar. The bodies are crimson red with a white abdomen and under tail coverts. The wings, tail, and legs are black. The bill is black and slightly curved. Juveniles are similar to adults except are a grayish-brown color. Their wings produce a distinct whirring sound in flight.
They have a wide repertoire of songs and calls that are very distinctive, but vary in different habitats on different islands. At least six calls and ten songs have been recorded.
Breeding season extends at least from December until July, often with two clutches being produced by a pair in a given year. Nests are usually found in the tops of `ohia-lehua trees, though they have also been found in tree ferns, and even lava tubes. Cup-shaped nests are made of large twigs, grass, ferns, moss and lichens. Clutch size is 2-4 eggs.
Oma'os are medium-sized, fruit-eating birds that occur throughout the forested areas of the Refuge. Although common on the Refuge, its subdued coloration makes it difficult to spot, but loud “grrrack” and “whistled trill” calls can be heard for long distances in the forest.
This bird has a dark brown back and a light gray breast. Birds are gray-brown above and lighter gray below, with a short, dark bill, a dark eye, and dark legs. As a member of the thrush family, Oma'os have a juvenile plumage pattern with heavy scalloping on the breast. The breast on juvenile birds is buffy-whitish in color, with black scalloped markings.
The ‘ōma‘ō feeds on native fruits and berries.
Oma'os are usually solitary, but individuals can be found in pairs throughout the year, with pair bonds lasting at least one breeding season. Courtship behavior is most often seen between January and March, with most breeding taking place between April and August. Females are responsible for nest construction and incubation of one or two eggs. Incubation lasts for about 16 days, and the young remain in the nest for about 19 days before fledging. Both adults feed nestlings and provide parental care for more than three weeks after young birds leave the nest.
Oma'os face the same threats that have decimated other native Hawaiian bird populations (habitat destruction, introduced predators, and diseases).
Pāpala kēpau or Kauaʻi catchbird tree
Nyctaginaceae (Four O'Clock family)
Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Kauaʻi only)
IUCN: Endangered
Kauaʻi (Cultivated)
Pāpala kēpau are truly fascinating plants with a sad, but interesting, cultural history. A sinistral use for the sticky fruit was to trap native birds. [6] The captured victims provided feathers for the strikingly colorful cloaks (capes), helmets, lei, images and kāhili. Birds such as 'ō'ō and mamo were plucked of their few moulting yellow feathers and set free to grow more for the next season. However, this was not the case with the 'i'iwi and 'apapane which were covered with red- or green-colored feathers and would not have survived the plucking. They were captured, plucked and eaten.
Medicinally, the milky sap from pāpala kēpau was used for cuts. The cooked leaves were used to cure pāʻaoʻao (childhood disease with physical weakening) and for lepo paʻa (constipation).
The early Hawaiians used an adhesive gum for repairing bowls.
Etymology
The former generic name Pisonia is named for William Piso (ca. 1611-1678), Dutch physician, pharmacist, botanist, and early writer on medicinal plants of Brazil.
The specific wagneriana is named for Warren L. Wagner, American botanist.
Pāpala kēpau or Umbrella catchbird tree
Nyctaginaceae (Four O'Clock family)
Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiʻi Island (Cultivated)
The early Hawaiians used an adhesive gum from pāpala kēpau for repairing bowls.
The milky sap from pāpala kēpau was used for cuts. The cooked leaves were used to cure pāʻaoʻao (childhood disease with physical weakening) and for lepo paʻa (constipation).
Pāpala kēpau are truly fascinating plants with a sad, but interesting, cultural history. A sinistral use for the sticky fruit was to trap native birds. [6] The captured victims provided feathers for the strikingly colorful cloaks (capes), helmets, lei, images and kāhili. Birds such as 'ō'ō and mamo were plucked of their few moulting yellow feathers and set free to grow more for the next season. However, this was not the case with the 'i'iwi and 'apapane which were covered with red- or green-colored feathers and would not have survived the plucking. They were captured, plucked and eaten.
The former generic name Pisonia is named for William Piso (ca. 1611-1678), Dutch physician, pharmacist, botanist, and early writer on medicinal plants of Brazil.
The specific epithet umbellifera is from the Latin umbelliferum, umbel-bearing or shade carrying, from umbrella (altered from umbell), Latin for parasol, and named for the large leaves of this species.
There is an ʻApapane (Himatione sanguinea) on the cliff-side ʻōhiʻa lehua tree at the lower rightt. Seen from the Halemau`u Trail, Haleakalā National Park, Maui, Hawai`i.
More images of one of the vivid honeycreepers at Hosmer Grove in Haleakala National Park on Maui, Hawaii. I saw several of these apapane, I think both adult and juvenile. (Brennan Mulrooney, I'm sure you can correct me if that isn't right!)
Pāpala kēpau or Kauaʻi catchbird tree
Nyctaginaceae (Four O'Clock family)
Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Kauaʻi only)
IUCN: Endangered
Kauaʻi (Cultivated)
Leaves (Closeup)
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Pāpala kēpau are truly fascinating plants with a sad, but interesting, cultural history. A sinistral use for the sticky fruit was to trap native birds. [6] The captured victims provided feathers for the strikingly colorful cloaks (capes), helmets, lei, images and kāhili. Birds such as 'ō'ō and mamo were plucked of their few moulting yellow feathers and set free to grow more for the next season. However, this was not the case with the 'i'iwi and 'apapane which were covered with red- or green-colored feathers and would not have survived the plucking. They were captured, plucked and eaten.
Medicinally, the milky sap from pāpala kēpau was used for cuts. The cooked leaves were used to cure pāʻaoʻao (childhood disease with physical weakening) and for lepo paʻa (constipation).
The early Hawaiians used an adhesive gum for repairing bowls.
Etymology
The generic name Pisonia is named for William Piso (ca. 1611-1678), Dutch physician, pharmacist, botanist, and early writer on medicinal plants of Brazil.
The specific wagneriana is named for Warren L. Wagner, American botanist.
Endemic in native mountain rainforests above 2,000 feet. Eats insects and nectar of flowering ohia trees, as well as flowering koa, mamane, and eucalyptus.
Pāpala kēpau or Umbrella catchbird tree
Nyctaginaceae (Four O'Clock family)
Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands
Oʻahu (Cultivated)
The early Hawaiians used an adhesive gum from pāpala kēpau for repairing bowls.
The milky sap from pāpala kēpau was used for cuts. The cooked leaves were used to cure pāʻaoʻao (childhood disease with physical weakening) and for lepo paʻa (constipation).
Pāpala kēpau are truly fascinating plants with a sad, but interesting, cultural history. A sinistral use for the sticky fruit was to trap native birds. [6] The captured victims provided feathers for the strikingly colorful cloaks (capes), helmets, lei, images and kāhili. Birds such as 'ō'ō and mamo were plucked of their few moulting yellow feathers and set free to grow more for the next season. However, this was not the case with the 'i'iwi and 'apapane which were covered with red- or green-colored feathers and would not have survived the plucking. They were captured, plucked and eaten.
The former generic name Pisonia is named for William Piso (ca. 1611-1678), Dutch physician, pharmacist, botanist, and early writer on medicinal plants of Brazil.
The specific epithet umbellifera is from the Latin umbelliferum, umbel-bearing or shade carrying, from umbrella (altered from umbell), Latin for parasol, and named for the large leaves of this species.
Pāpala kēpau or Umbrella catchbird tree
Nyctaginaceae (Four O'Clock family)
Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiʻi Island (Cultivated)
The early Hawaiians used an adhesive gum from pāpala kēpau for repairing bowls.
The milky sap from pāpala kēpau (Pisonia spp.) was used for cuts. The cooked leaves were used to cure pāʻaoʻao (childhood disease with physical weakening) and for lepo paʻa (constipation).
Pāpala kēpau are truly fascinating plants with a sad, but interesting, cultural history. A sinistral use for the sticky fruit was to trap native birds. [6] The captured victims provided feathers for the strikingly colorful cloaks (capes), helmets, lei, images and kāhili. Birds such as 'ō'ō and mamo were plucked of their few moulting yellow feathers and set free to grow more for the next season. However, this was not the case with the 'i'iwi and 'apapane which were covered with red- or green-colored feathers and would not have survived the plucking. They were captured, plucked and eaten.
The generic name Pisonia is named for William Piso (ca. 1611-1678), Dutch physician, pharmacist, botanist, and early writer on medicinal plants of Brazil.
The specific epithet umbellifera is from the Latin umbelliferum, umbel-bearing or shade carrying, from umbrella (altered from umbell), Latin for parasol, and named for the large leaves of this species.
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Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1985 to protect and manage endangered Hawaiian forest birds and their rain forest habitat. Located on the windward slope of Mauna Kea, Island of Hawai‘i, the 32,733-acre Hakalau Forest Unit supports a diversity of native birds and plants equaled by only one or two other areas in the State of Hawai‘i.
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Pāpala kēpau or Umbrella catchbird tree
Nyctaginaceae (Four O'Clock family)
Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands
Oʻahu (Cultivated)
The early Hawaiians used an adhesive gum from pāpala kēpau for repairing bowls.
The milky sap from pāpala kēpau was used for cuts. The cooked leaves were used to cure pāʻaoʻao (childhood disease with physical weakening) and for lepo paʻa (constipation).
Pāpala kēpau are truly fascinating plants with a sad, but interesting, cultural history. A sinistral use for the sticky fruit was to trap native birds. [6] The captured victims provided feathers for the strikingly colorful cloaks (capes), helmets, lei, images and kāhili. Birds such as 'ō'ō and mamo were plucked of their few moulting yellow feathers and set free to grow more for the next season. However, this was not the case with the 'i'iwi and 'apapane which were covered with red- or green-colored feathers and would not have survived the plucking. They were captured, plucked and eaten.
The former generic name Pisonia is named for William Piso (ca. 1611-1678), Dutch physician, pharmacist, botanist, and early writer on medicinal plants of Brazil.
The specific epithet umbellifera is from the Latin umbelliferum, umbel-bearing or shade carrying, from umbrella (altered from umbell), Latin for parasol, and named for the large leaves of this species.