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Justification of Red List category
This species is known from Hawaii's Big Island, USA, but it has not been recorded since 1901 and is now Extinct. Most of its habitat was cleared for agriculture, which is likely to have caused its extinction.

Population justification
None remain.

Trend justification
This species was discovered in 1892 (Greenway 1967), and last recorded in 1901 (Stattersfield et al. 1998).

This species was only found along the Wailuku river above Hilo on Hawai`i, USA (Lindsey et al. 1998).

It was restricted to dense, moist ohi'a forest at 152-1,220 m (Hume 2017).

Its native forest was cleared for sugar cane, likely causing its extinction (Amadon 1950).

Text account compilers
Vine, J.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Greater Amakihi Viridonia sagittirostris. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/greater-amakihi-viridonia-sagittirostris on 23/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/11/2024.