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Kauai Akialoa
Akialoa stejnegeri
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About Kauai Akialoa
Kauai Akialoa (Akialoa stejnegeri) is recorded as an extinct on Kauaʻi in the Bishop Museum's 2017 island checklist. This is a documented island occurrence, not a claim of an individual sighting in 2026.
Kauaʻi evidence
Bishop Museum island checklist (version 2, 2017) lists Kauaʻi status X: extinct. See original island table. The record includes Kauaʻi-specific or clearly defined regional evidence appropriate to its stated occurrence status. Historic Kauaʻi occurrence is documented; present status should not be inferred from a Hawaiʻi-wide name.
Occurrence evidence
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Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Akialoa stejnegeri
- Common names
- Kauai Akialoa
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Kauaʻi documented: extinct (2017 island checklist)
- Origin
- Endemic; extinct
- Conservation status
- Extinct
- Evidence date
- 2026-09-29
- Evidence limits
- Former island occurrence documented; no living local population is established by this source
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Forest
- Food and resource needs
- Foraged for arthropods on ohia and koa trunks/branches and hapuu tree ferns by probing bark crevices, decaying wood, epiphytes, and organic matter
- Reproduction
- Historical breeding requirements are incompletely documented.
- Shelter
- Shelter and structure within forest.
Threats and conservation
- Threats
- Decline cause unknown · Likely habitat loss/degradation, introduced mammal predation, and disease · Historic pox lesions were noted in accounts and museum specimens
- Conservation actions
- Use as lost long-bill nectar/probing guild record and as a high-priority historical interpretation species
- Monitoring
- Document date, place, observer, habitat, behavior, and supporting media for any Kauaʻi observation.
- Data gaps
- Verify former range, last record and local extinction chronology
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Extinct Historical
- Seasonal description
- Kauai Akialoa (Akialoa stejnegeri) is recorded as an extinct on Kauaʻi in the Bishop Museum's 2017 island checklist. This is a documented island occurrence, not a claim of an individual sighting in 2026.