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Maui ʻAkepa
Plate 1 of 2. John Gerrard Keulemans, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist
IUCN EX · Extinct

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Maui Akepa

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Maui ʻAkepa

Loxops ochraceus

The Maui ʻakepa (Loxops ochraceus) is a species of ʻakepa native to Maui in the Hawaiian Islands, and which was common throughout the island. Introduced mosquitoes and other animals to Maui contributed to the declining population, and the bird is considered critically endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The last reported sighting of this bird was in 1988, and it is possibly extinct.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 512258.