Laysan rail
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The Laysan rail or Laysan crake is an extinct species of flightless rail endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan. In Hawaiian, the common name for this species is moho, which it shares with
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Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans
Laysan rail feeding on a seabird's egg.
Breeding Laysan rail
Laysan honeycreeper
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The Laysan honeycreeper, also known as the Laysan ʻapapane or Laysan honeyeater, is an extinct species of finch that was endemic to the island of Laysan in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The bird
Laysan rail
…the rabbits soon ate the entire vegetation cover on the island. This turned the island into a barren dust bowl, sending the Laysan millerbird and the Laysan honeycreeper (both endemic to the island) to extinction; the Laysan finch and Laysan duck both managed to survive. In the 1900s, when destruction of the vegetation…
Laysan honeycreeper in 1923
Bills of Hawaiian honeycreepers by Frederick W. Frohawk, 1893–1900; 23 (lower left) is the Laysan honeycreeper, with the variant spelling H. freethii
The ʻapapane, the closest relative of the Laysan honeycreeper
Adult male Laysan honeycreeper (A), adult female (B), juvenile (C), and ʻapapane (D), by John Gerrard Keulemans, 1893–1900