SPECIES

Maui Akepa Loxops ochraceus Scientific name definitions

Jaan Kaimanu Lepson and Leonard A. Freed
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 1997

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Research reported in this account was supported by the Hawai'i Audubon Society (to JKL), a predoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation (to JKL), a grant from the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation (to LAF, Rebecca Cann, and Sheila Conant), and the U.S. Forest Service (to JKL). Fieldwork was facilitated by the staff of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, particularly manager Dick Wass and refuge biologist Jack Jeffrey. We thank C. J. Ralph for providing us with unpublished data on the Hawai'i 'Akepa. For access to museum specimens, JKL thanks Carla Kishinami and Bob Pyle of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and B. Stephan and Jürgen Fiebig of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. Carter Atkinson, Paul Baldwin, Marie Morin, Alan Poole, Thane Pratt,and Keith Russell kindly critiqued drafts of this account.

Recommended Citation

Lepson, J. K. and L. A. Freed (2020). Maui Akepa (Loxops ochraceus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.akepa3.01