#Maui Parrotbill

A sign waving rally was held Saturday in Kahului, asking the state to complete a full Environmental Impact Statement for their planned “Mosquito Control Research Using Wolbachia-based Incompatible Insect Technique” project.

Councilmember Kelly Takaya King hosts a virtual town hall meeting Thursday to discuss plans to use mosquito birth control to save endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers. Efforts include the protection of Maui’s kiwikiu (also known as the Maui parrotbill), and ‘ākohekohe (also known as the crested honeycreeper).  

A new extinction study finds that some species of Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds could vanish in two years if they become victims of avian malaria.

Approximately $6.1 million from this fund would aid in the acquisition of 3,019 acres adjacent to Haleakalā National Park.

Kiwikiu (Maui parrotbill) is the most endangered native Hawaiian bird. The small yellow honeycreepers live only in high elevation forest on windward Haleakalā, Maui. With an estimated population of less than 150 individuals, it is at high risk of going extinct within a few years.

Small Town * Big Art celebrated the launch of its next public artwork on Monday, March 15 with local artist Kirk Kurokawa beginning the installation of a mural on the facade of the Victim Witness Building at 2103 Wells Street in Wailuku. The public artwork celebrates Wailuku’s distinctive sense of place, history and culture.

Maui Brewing Company in Lahaina hosts the event, with half the pub profits from house beers sold going towards the protection of native birds and endangered species on Maui. 

Biologists say preliminary tests suggest that avian malaria is suspected in the deaths, however final post-mortem results are pending release.

In an effort to lower the risk of extinction for the kiwikiu (Maui Parrotbill), seven birds have been relocated to a new home that sicentists hope will provide more “productive” breeding conditions.  

The team will move the birds from the Maui Bird Conservation Center into temporary release aviaries at the Nakula release site in mid-October.

A new interagency monitoring report on Hawaiian forest birds indicates that remaining populations of kiwikiu and ‘ākohekohe are in rapid decline.

A new relocation project on Maui aims to increase habitat for the threatened Kiwikiu, Maui Parrotbill bird.

A group of youth volunteers spent recent weeks planting thousands of native trees on the leeward slopes of Haleakalā as part of an effort aimed at restoring dryland habitat for endangered native plant and bird species including the Kiwikiu bird, which numbered only 500 at last report.

Haleakalā National Park marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act tomorrow, a measure that gave public lands their highest level of protection when it was signed into law in 1964, park officials announced.

A hui of state and federal wildlife and conservation agencies will hold a blessing and name dedication ceremony for the endangered Maui Parrotbill bird this weekend. The Hawaiian Lexicon Committee conferred the Hawaiian name of kiwikiu on the honeycreeper species in May. There are only about 500 birds still existence today. The onomatopoetic name mimics […]

There’s new hope for a critically endangered forest bird on Maui.  Results from a two week survey conducted in September suggest that the Maui Parrotbill numbers are showing signs of stability. Teams from the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project estimated there are about 20 parrotbills per square kilometer of forest, that’s more than double the […]

The Forestry and Wildlife Division of the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources will receive grants totaling $907,153 for logistical and research support to establish a second population of the endangered Maui parrotbill. Senate Appropriations Chairman Daniel K. Inouye and Senator Daniel K. Akaka joined in making the funding announcement today. The second Maui […]