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Aidemedia zanclops
"Sickle-billed Gaper"


EXTINCT

Bird photo is of a sickle -billed vanga ;

This is another newly described species which is part of the new Genus Aidemedia. The Aidemedia species are characterized as being Drepanidine birds with sturdy ,straight or decurved, very elongate bills, with extremely long retroarticular processes on the mandibles.

The bones of this new species were collected by Aki Sinoto and others from site 50-Oa-B6-78 at Barbers Point, Oahu.

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

Aloha,
Michael Walther