Endangered
Maui Alauahio
Paroreomyza montana
Maui Alauahio is a perching bird in the family Fringillidae (order Passeriformes) — Paroreomyza montana, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Even so, Maui ʻalauahio are a brighter yellow color, have a less curved bill and do not have prominent black lores (area between the bill and the eye).
Published measurements include mass about 13.2.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Maui Nui, Hawaii. The name Maui ʻalauahio is somewhat misleading because the species seems to have occurred on most, if not all, parts of the ancient Maui Nui, that includes the present day islands of Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe. There are two subspecies: the Lānaʻi ʻalauahio, P. Montana montana, that occurred on Lānaʻi (extinct), and P. Montana newtoni that occurs on Maui.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Maui ʻalauahio are insectivorous and forage along trunks and branches flipping over lichen and bark in search of insects. The breeding season for Maui ʻalauahio is March - August.
The nest helpers assist the male with feeding the female during incubation, as well as feeding the chicks, usually by regurgitation. Maui ʻalauahio young may stay with parents for up to 20 months, and then breed in their third year.
In crisis
The Maui ʻalauahioʻs range is restricted and threatened by habitat loss.
Maui Alauahio is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Maui Alauahio, Wikidata item Q1308758. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
