Honeycreeper: Akohekohe

Field Journal # 1

Source: datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/akohekohe-palmeria-dolei

Date: 1/13/22

Entry:

Hi, I’m a type of Hawaiian Honeycreeper called the Akohekohe. My name is Trevor, my
family lives on the top of Haleakala. In this little region near the top. I've always been told that
we have family over on Molokai but we haven't talked to them since 1907. We love to eat ohi’a
nectar and sub-canopy fruits and flowers. As for our nesting, we raise 1-2 per nest. We have
black curved beaks to help u reach things. We also have some aesthetic significance we have
silver flecks on our face and upper breast, white-tipped wings, bright orange napes and eye
patches, a white crest on our foreheads. We love the wet forests on Maui. the rush of flying
through the trees in the early morning. Humans have generations but we do too. They might be
shorter but we have them; they are about 4.6… years long. I have heard that our species is dying
off from all the land changing and the mosquitoes carrying disease. Hopefully, we can survive.