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Population structure and inter-species admixture within a likely extinct yet formerly widespread Hawaiian honeycreeper.
Biology letters - 1 Oct 2025
Przelomska Natalia A S, Campana Michael G, James Helen F, Kistler Logan, Rotzel McInerney Nancy, Pérez-Escobar Oscar A, Hagemann Molly, Groombridge Jim J, Fleischer Robert C
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The Hawaiian honeycreepers simultaneously represent one of the most spectacular avian adaptive radiations and are one of the most endangered avian groups. This clade's few geographically widespread species can serve as a model to understand population-level processes shaping differentiation and characterizing decline. One such species is the likely extinct 'ō'ū (Psittirostra psittacea), a parrot-like beaked...
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