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Why is this animal listed under the New Zealand extinct animals category if it lived in Hawaii? That's over a thousand miles away. 97.104.210.67 ( talk) 00:40, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Due to recent (mid-2018) and repeated disruptive editing of the temporal range for the species described in this article, I am inserting on this Talk Page the following quotes from one of the main references upon which this article is based ("Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes" by Storrs L. Olson and Helen F. James, 1991).
Given the above, and additional comments by the authors such as "Prehistoric avian extinctions in the Hawaiian Islands are attributed mainly to predation and environmental degradation by Polynesians and introduced predators" and, most tellingly, "Had not Homo sapiens arrived in these islands some 16 centuries ago, these birds would still be alive today", I feel it is accurate to describe this species (as well as the others described in the paper) as being all but contemporaneous with modern birds -- that is, with a temporal range of "Late Holocene". Kiwikiu ( talk) 02:52, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
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Why is this animal listed under the New Zealand extinct animals category if it lived in Hawaii? That's over a thousand miles away. 97.104.210.67 ( talk) 00:40, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Due to recent (mid-2018) and repeated disruptive editing of the temporal range for the species described in this article, I am inserting on this Talk Page the following quotes from one of the main references upon which this article is based ("Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes" by Storrs L. Olson and Helen F. James, 1991).
Given the above, and additional comments by the authors such as "Prehistoric avian extinctions in the Hawaiian Islands are attributed mainly to predation and environmental degradation by Polynesians and introduced predators" and, most tellingly, "Had not Homo sapiens arrived in these islands some 16 centuries ago, these birds would still be alive today", I feel it is accurate to describe this species (as well as the others described in the paper) as being all but contemporaneous with modern birds -- that is, with a temporal range of "Late Holocene". Kiwikiu ( talk) 02:52, 26 June 2018 (UTC)