02-15-2019, 11:48 AM
Glass#.. the honey-creepers are radiated from finches... as in the finch diversity Darwin chronicled in the Galapagos. I am pretty impressed that they got from hard billed seed-eaters to the woodpecker like the 'Akiapola'au (this bird has a hard hammer like lower bill & a more flexible, probing upper bill)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...2211011894
ETA: also remember that there were far more birds here than there are now including large flightless birds, giant goose species, & many more seabirds than we experience here today... think of the NW Hawaiian island & the seabird populations there..
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...2211011894
ETA: also remember that there were far more birds here than there are now including large flightless birds, giant goose species, & many more seabirds than we experience here today... think of the NW Hawaiian island & the seabird populations there..