Haha! You still included footage of a heron stalking prey! The dancing (International Market Place?) is actually Tahitian, rather than Hawaiian. With the exception of the Golden Plover, all of the bird species shown were introduced, with the Java 'Sparrow' (Lonchura oryzivora) the most recent introduction. The Common Waxbill (Red Eared Waxbill), Yellow Fronted Canary (Green Singing Finch), and Java Sparrow were casual introductions from the cage and aviary bird trade, along with the Scaly Breasted Munia (Spice Finch), Strawberry Finch, Peach Faced Lovebird (another recent introduction), and Black Headed Nun, which are not shown here. Buddhists traditionally release birds and fishes and turtles from captivity as a "good" and meritorius act of kindness. Others were brought over by migrants from East and Southeast Asia who wished to continue hearing and seeing their favorite birds from their ancestral countries, including the White Rumped Shama, Zebra Dove, and Red Vented Bulbul shown here, and also the Japanese Bush Warbler, Red Billed Leiothrix (the 'Pekin Nightingale' of the cage and aviary bird trade, though it is not normally found so far north; in Hawaii they have undergone 2 major population crashes but have recovered), Varied Tit, Eurasian Skylark, and Chinese Hwamei. The Spotted Dove was introduced mainly as a songbird, but was also legally hunted quite intensively until recently. As hunting pressure declined, they have become very much tamer in residential and tourist areas than in years past. The Red Junglefowl is the ancestor of domestic Chickens, and most seen in Hawaii are from mixed Junglefowl X feral Chicken ancestry, as the Polynesians brought Chickens over millennia ago. The not very popular Common Myna may have come over as a cargo ship stowaway, like Asia's House Crow, they are very adept at this method of dispersal.
So true. I was hoping to find a real native besides the plover but I didn’t get a chance to try so real wilderness. The big island is much better for that. The Pacific Golden Plover actually flies non stop on its seasonal trip from Alaska so I’m assuming that one is native. I saw a Nene but it was in the zoo so I didn’t want to include that one. My practice with herons helped me capture that cattle egret hunting.
@jimzenor9148 Thanks! I missed the Golden Plover (which is a native migrant), and also edited some of my earlier comment. Birds from the mainland tropics and subtopics worldwide often harbor Plasmodium spp.and Haemoproteus spp. as tolerant carriers. Mosquito vectors of these were believed to have arrived with the first non Polynesians, and these pathogens are believed to have been largely responsible for the decline of native honeycreepers (which according to recent DNA analysis, are relatives of cardueline finches.
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Haha! You still included footage of a heron stalking prey!
The dancing (International Market Place?) is actually Tahitian, rather than Hawaiian.
With the exception of the Golden Plover, all of the bird species shown were introduced, with the Java 'Sparrow' (Lonchura oryzivora) the most recent introduction.
The Common Waxbill (Red Eared Waxbill), Yellow Fronted Canary (Green Singing Finch), and Java Sparrow were casual introductions from the cage and aviary bird trade, along with the Scaly Breasted Munia (Spice Finch), Strawberry Finch, Peach Faced Lovebird (another recent introduction), and Black Headed Nun, which are not shown here. Buddhists traditionally release birds and fishes and turtles from captivity as a "good" and meritorius act of kindness. Others were brought over by migrants from East and Southeast Asia who wished to continue hearing and seeing their favorite birds from their ancestral countries, including the White Rumped Shama, Zebra Dove, and Red Vented Bulbul shown here, and also the Japanese Bush Warbler, Red Billed Leiothrix (the 'Pekin Nightingale' of the cage and aviary bird trade, though it is not normally found so far north; in Hawaii they have undergone 2 major population crashes but have recovered), Varied Tit, Eurasian Skylark, and Chinese Hwamei. The Spotted Dove was introduced mainly as a songbird, but was also legally hunted quite intensively until recently. As hunting pressure declined, they have become very much tamer in residential and tourist areas than in years past.
The Red Junglefowl is the ancestor of domestic Chickens, and most seen in Hawaii are from mixed Junglefowl X feral Chicken ancestry, as the Polynesians brought Chickens over millennia ago. The not very popular Common Myna may have come over as a cargo ship stowaway, like Asia's House Crow, they are very adept at this method of dispersal.
So true. I was hoping to find a real native besides the plover but I didn’t get a chance to try so real wilderness. The big island is much better for that. The Pacific Golden Plover actually flies non stop on its seasonal trip from Alaska so I’m assuming that one is native. I saw a Nene but it was in the zoo so I didn’t want to include that one. My practice with herons helped me capture that cattle egret hunting.
@jimzenor9148 Thanks! I missed the Golden Plover (which is a native migrant), and also edited some of my earlier comment.
Birds from the mainland tropics and subtopics worldwide often harbor Plasmodium spp.and Haemoproteus spp. as tolerant carriers. Mosquito vectors of these were believed to have arrived with the first non Polynesians, and these pathogens are believed to have been largely responsible for the decline of native honeycreepers (which according to recent DNA analysis, are relatives of cardueline finches.