Kākāwahie
Extinct circa 1963 CE • Hawaii
"The Kākāwahie (Paroreomyza flammea), also known as Moloka'i Creeper, has not been recorded since the early 1960s despite intensive forest bird surveys in the 1970s, 1988, and 1992 and is probably extinct."
Hawaii's birds (Honolulu : Hawaii Audubon Society, 2005), 93.
Image: Gerrard Keulemans, John. Moloka'i Creeper (Paroreomyza Flammea). Digital image. Avifauna of Laysan' by Lionel Walter Rothschild from the Years 1893 to 1900. 1893.
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