Data Zone
Justification of Red List category
This species was known from the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, USA, but is now Extinct, probably as a result of habitat destruction, rat predation and introduced diseases. The last record was in the Kamako'u Preserve in 1963.
Population justification
None remain.
Trend justification
It was common in 1907, but declined rapidly afterwards and was rare by the 1930s (Gorresen et al. 2009), finally disappearing between 1961 and 1963 (Collar et al. 1994). Surveys from 1979 onwards have failed to locate the species (Gorresen et al. 2009).
Paroreomyza flammea was endemic to Moloka'i, Hawaii, USA (Stattersfield et al. 1998). The last record was in the Kamako'u Preserve in 1963 (Collar et al. 1994).
This species was an insectivore, foraging in wet `ohi`a forests above 450 m (Hume 2017).
Its extinction was presumably due to habitat destruction, rat predation and disease (Collar et al. 1994, Hume 2017). It is not thought to have been collected (Amante-Helweg and Conant 2009).
Text account compilers
Vine, J.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Kakawahie Paroreomyza flammea. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/kakawahie-paroreomyza-flammea on 26/12/2024.
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 26/12/2024.