Puaiohi

Appearance

The plumage is mostly nondescript, with slaty-brown upperparts and a light gray breast and belly below. Birds have a black bill and pinkish feet. A white eye ring is also fairly prominent and helps distinguish this bird from the other Hawaiian thrushes.

Range and habitat

Historically, this species has always been considered rare, favoring forested ravines above 1,050 metres (3,440 ft). Puaiohi are restricted to the center and southern parts of the Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. Seventy-five percent of the breeding population occurs in only 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi) of forest.

The Puaiohi or small Kauaʻi thrush is a rare species of songbird in the thrush family, Turdidae, that is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet and breeding

Outside the breeding season, most (82%) of the diet is fruit and berries, the remainder being insects and other invertebrates. In the breeding season, over fifty percent of the diet shifts to invertebrates.

Males sing throughout the year, but do so with increasing frequency as the breeding season approaches, peaking from April to May. Females are the sole nest builders, and nest building can take up to seven days.

In crisis

Puaiohi is Critically 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 Puaiohi, Wikidata item Q2668284. 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.