The North Pacific albatross are the most tropical of the albatrosses with two species one of which primarily lives in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands with an estimated population of how many?
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North Pacific albatross The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus "Phoebastria" in the albatross family. They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan (the short-tailed albatross), and one nesting on the equator (the waved albatross).
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Laysan albatross The Laysan albatross ("Phoebastria immutabilis") is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to 99.7% of the population. This small (for its family) gull-like albatross is the second most common seabird in the Hawaiian Islands, with an estimated population of 2.5 million birds, and is currently expanding (or possibly re-expanding) its range to new islands. The Laysan albatross was first described as "Diomedea immutabilis" by Lionel Walter Rothschild, in 1893, on the basis of a specimen from Laysan Island.
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Niuafoʻou Niuafoʻ ou (meaning: "many new coconuts") is the most northerly island in the kingdom of Tonga. It is a volcanic rim island of 15 km² and with a population of 650 in 2006.
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Tristan albatross The Tristan albatross ("Diomedea dabbenena") is a large seabird from the albatross family. One of the great albatrosses of the genus "Diomedea", it was only widely recognised as a full species in 1998.
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Paradisaea The genus Paradisaea consists of seven species of birds-of-paradise (family Paradisaeidae). The genus is found on the island of New Guinea as well as the nearby islands groups of the Aru Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands and West Papua Islands. The species inhabit a range of forest types from sea level to mid-montane forests. Several species have highly restricted distributions, and all species have disjunct distributions. A 2009 study examining the mitochondrial DNA of the family found that the "Paradisaea" birds-of-paradise were in a clade with the genus "Cicinnurus". It showed that the blue bird-of-paradise was a sister taxon to all the other species in this genus.
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Marquesas cuckoo-dove The Marquesas cuckoo-dove ("Macropygia heana"), also referred to as the Marquesan cuckoo-dove, is an extinct species of bird in the pigeon family. It was endemic to the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. It was described from subfossil bones recovered from the Hane archaeological site on the island of Ua Huka. The cuckoo-dove was a relatively large species, with long legs; its limb proportions suggesting a more terrestrial lifestyle than its congeners. Extinction occurred not long after, and probably as a consequence of, colonisation of the islands by Polynesians.
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Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: "Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ" ), is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's population of 53,158 people (at the 2011 Census) is spread out over 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets.
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Honeyeater The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds. The family includes the Australian chats, myzomelas, friarbirds, wattlebirds, miners and melidectes. They are most common in Australia and New Guinea, but also found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the islands to the north and west of New Guinea known as Wallacea. Bali, on the other side of the Wallace Line, has a single species.
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Ua Pou Ua Pou (French: "Ua Pou" , North Marquesan: "’uapou") is the third largest of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is located about 50 km (30 mi.) south of Nuku Hiva, in the northern Marquesas. Until the beginning of the 1980s, it was the most populous of the Marquesas Islands, because when the other islands were being ravaged by diseases introduced by European explorers and traders, the Catholic priests on the island finally took to quarantining the remnant of the native population inside their churches whenever visiting ships approached the island, thereby reducing their exposure to external diseases.
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Tahiti monarch The Tahiti monarch or Tahiti flycatcher ("Pomarea nigra") is a rare species of bird in the monarch flycatcher family. It is endemic to Tahiti in French Polynesia. There are fewer than 50 individuals remaining.
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Murray Island, Queensland Murray Island, also called Mer in the native Meriam language, is a small island of volcanic origin, the most easterly inhabited island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, just north of the Great Barrier Reef. The island is populated by the Melanesian Meriam people, which has a population of around 485 as of 2006 census . The Murray Group comprises three islands: "Mer", "Dauar" and" Waier".
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Moho (genus) Moho is a genus of extinct birds in the Hawaiian bird family, Mohoidae, that were endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Members of the genus are known as ʻ ōʻ ō in the Hawaiian language. Their plumage was generally striking glossy black; some species had yellowish axillary tufts and other black outer feathers. Most of these species became extinct by habitat loss and by extensive hunting because their plumage were used for the creation of precious "ʻ aʻ ahu aliʻ i" (robes) and "ʻ ahu ʻ ula" (capes) for "aliʻ i" (Hawaiian nobility). The Kauaʻ i ʻ ōʻ ō was the last species of this genus to become extinct, probably a victim of avian malaria.
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Necker Island (Hawaii) Necker Island (Hawaiian: Mokumanamana) is a small island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is located at in the Pacific Ocean, 155 mi northwest of Nihoa and 8 mi north of the Tropic of Cancer. It contains important prehistoric archaeological sites of the Hawaiian culture and is part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge within the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument.
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Poʻouli The poʻ o-uli ("Melamprosops phaeosoma"), or black-faced honeycreeper, is a species of passerine bird that is endemic to the island of Maui in Hawaiʻi. It is considered to be a member of the Hawaiian honeycreepers, and is the only member of its genus Melamprosops. It has a black head, brown upper parts and pale grey underparts. This bird is only known from the drier, easternmost side of Maui, and has decreased in numbers so that now only a few individuals, if any, remain. With extinction threatening, efforts have been made to capture birds to enable them to breed in captivity. This has been largely unsuccessful, and in 2004, only two known birds remained, and since then, no further birds have been sighted.
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List of birds of Niue This is a list of the bird species recorded in Niue. The avifauna of Niue include a total of twenty-nine species, of which one has been introduced by humans and nine are rare or accidental. Two species are globally threatened. There are no endemic species surviving today but there are endemic subspecies of the Polynesian triller and Polynesian starling. There are 15 breeding species of which eleven are landbirds and four are seabirds. Studies of fossil birds suggest that Niue's avifauna was formerly more diverse. Birds recorded from subfossil remains predating Polynesian settlement of the island include the Niue night heron ("Nycticorax kalavikai"), Tongan megapode ("Megapodius pritchardii") and the Niue rail ("Gallirallus huiatua").
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Tahitians The Tahitians, or Maohis, are a nation and Polynesian ethnic group native to Tahiti and thirteen other Society Islands in French Polynesia, as well as the modern population of these lands of multiracial, primarily Polynesian-French, ancestry (French: "demis" ). The Tahitians are one of the largest indigenous Polynesian peoples of Oceania, behind the Māori, Hawaiians and Samoans.
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Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio The Hawaiʻ i ʻ elepaio ("Chasiempis sandwichensis"), also Hawaiian ʻ elepaio, is a monarch flycatcher found on the Big Island of Hawaii. Until 2010, all three ʻ elepaio species, the Kauaʻi ʻelepaio ("C. sclateri"), the Oʻahu ʻelepaio ("C. ibidis") and this species were considered conspecific.
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Hylaeus assimulans Hylaeus assimulans is a species of bee, also known by the common name Assimulans yellow-faced bee. It is endemic to Hawaii and known from only five populations. In September 2016, along with six other Hawaiian "Hylaeus" species, "H. assimulans" was listed for protection under the United States Endangered Species Act. This marked a first listing for any bee species in the US.
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Hawaiian tropical rainforests The Hawaiian tropical rainforests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in the Hawaiian Islands. They cover an area of 6700 km2 in the windward lowlands and montane regions of the islands. Coastal mesic forests are found at elevations from sea level to 300 m . Mixed mesic forests occur at elevations of 750 to , while wet forests are found from 1250 to . Moist bogs and shrublands exist on montane plateaus and depressions. For the 28 million years of existence of the Hawaiian Islands, they have been isolated from the rest of the world by vast stretches of the Pacific Ocean, and this isolation has resulted in the evolution of an incredible diversity of endemic species, including fungi, mosses, snails, birds, and other wildlife. In the lush, moist forests high in the mountains, trees are draped with vines, orchids, ferns, and mosses. This ecoregion includes one of the world's wettest places, the slopes of Mount Waiʻ aleʻ ale, which average 460 in of rainfall per year.
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Line Islands The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of atolls (with partially or fully enclosed lagoons) and coral islands (with a surrounding reef). Kingman Reef is a largely submerged and Filippo Reef is shown on some maps, although its existence is doubted. The islands were formed by volcanic activity and are located in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands. The 11 islands stretch for 2,350 km in a northwest–southeast direction, making it one of the longest island chains of the world. Eight of the islands form part of Kiribati, while the remaining three are United States territories grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands. Only Kiritimati and Tabuaeran atolls and Teraina Island have a permanent population.
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Weber's sailfin lizard Weber's sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus weberi), is an agamid lizard found in Indonesia. Specifically, it is endemic to Halmahera and Ternate Islands of Maluku. It has a life-span of between 10–15 years. "H. weberi" is the smallest of the three recognized species of "Hydrosaurus", attaining an avg. total length between 2–3 ft. Some argue that full species status ("H.weberi") may be invalid and claim this agamid should be classified a subspecies of the larger "H. pustulatus", Philippine Sailfin; for the purpose of this literature, "H."weberi"" shall remain a distinct animal. The third species, "H. amboinensis", Indonesian Sailfin is the largest of the group. Although much research is still needed, it is known that this lizard is primarily omnivorous; devouring whatever animal it can overpower plus consuming a variety vegetation and fruit. In captivity, juveniles are usually maintained on a 60% insect / 40% vegetation diet. Adults, 75% vegetation / 25% insects etc.
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Saipan reed warbler The Saipan reed warbler ("Acrocephalus hiwae") is a critically endangered songbird of the Northern Mariana Islands. It is considered a subspecies of the nightingale reed warbler by some taxonomists. It occurs on two islands : Saipan and Alamagan. An estimated population of 2700 specimen was reported in 2009 on Saipan, and on Alamagan 950 specimen were reported in 2010.<ref name="Rounds / Radley"> </ref>