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Chloridops regiskongi
New Species


EXTINCT

Pictured above, C. kona

A second species of Chloridops was recently described from sub-fossils discovered at Barbers Point, Oahu in 1981 by Aki Sinoto, Patrick McCoy and others. This species of extinct grosbeak finch had the largest bill known among finch-like drepanidines. The bill differs significantly from the other two species of Chloridops in shape as well.

Please do what you can to save the native Hawaiian forest bird species that remain.

Aloha,
Michael Walther