Burung kicau (Songbirds)
ʻAkekeʻe
Loxops caeruleirostris
- legendaris
- 92 km/h
- Kritis
A flash of yellow-green in Kauaʻi's last cloud forest. Fewer than a thousand left to carry your words.
- Populasi
- Fewer than 638 mature individuals; declining approximately 21% per year, among the fastest declines of any Hawaiian bird, with modeled extinction possible by ~2028 absent intervention
- Habitat
- Native wet and mesic montane ʻōhiʻa lehua-dominated forest, restricted to elevations above roughly 1,100 m (3,600–4,000 ft)
- Fakta menarik
- The ʻAkekeʻe is the only Hawaiian honeycreeper with crossed bill tips (convergent with true crossbills), using them like scissors to pry open ʻōhiʻa buds and reach hidden insects.
- Sebaran
- Endemic to the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaii; now confined to three high-elevation areas on the Alakaʻi Plateau — Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve, Kōkeʻe State Park, and Waimea Canyon State Park
- Makanan
- Insects and spiders (larvae especially) extracted from ʻōhiʻa leaf and flower buds using its crossed, scissor-like bill tips; also takes some nectar
- Ukuran
- 0,11 m
- Masa hidup
- 2,3 tahun
