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Brian Williams<\/a> is\u00a0an artist living in Columbus, Ohio, USA, and\u00a0Mikael Vogel<\/a> is a poet living in Berlin, Germany. They frequently collaborate on creative projects\u00a0focusing on extinct and endangered animals, and will release\u00a0an illustrated book of poetry in spring 2017. <\/em><\/p>\n This is their tribute to the extinct Hawaiian po’o-uli bird.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Behind black bird-masks<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Poem by Mikael Vogel.\u00a0Translated from German by Holden Silverfish<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Some information on the\u00a0po\u2019o-uli <\/strong><\/p>\n The po\u2019o-uli was discovered in 1973 on the slopes of\u00a0Haleakal\u0101<\/a>\u00a0on the island of\u00a0Maui<\/a>. It was the first species of Hawaiian honeycreeper to be discovered since 1923. It was unlike other Hawaiian birds, belonging to an ancient lineage of Hawaiian honeycreepers.\u00a0<\/sup>No other bird \u2013 living or fossil \u2013 has a structure similar to it.<\/span><\/p>\n By 1997, only three individuals were known to exist. In 2002, one of these, a female, was captured and taken to a male’s home range in an attempt to get them to breed. The female, however, had flown back to her own territory, which was 1.5 miles away, by the next day. There was also a ten-day expedition in 2004. The goal of this was to capture all three birds and bring them to a bird conservation centre on the island, in the hope they would produce offspring.<\/span><\/p>\n On September 9, 2004, one of the remaining birds, a male, was captured and taken to the Maui Bird Conservation Centre in\u00a0Olinda<\/a>, in an attempt to breed the bird in captivity. However, biologists could not find a mate for the male before it died on November 26, 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n The decline of the po\u2019o-uli was due to\u00a0habitat<\/a>\u00a0loss,\u00a0mosquito<\/a>-borne diseases, predation by\u00a0pigs<\/a>,\u00a0rats<\/a>,\u00a0cats<\/a>, and\u00a0small Asian mongooses<\/a>, and a decline in the native tree snails that the po\u2019o-uli relied on for food.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brian Williams is\u00a0an artist living in Columbus, Ohio, USA, and\u00a0Mikael Vogel is a poet living in Berlin, Germany. They frequently collaborate on creative projects\u00a0focusing on extinct and endangered animals, and will release\u00a0an illustrated book of poetry in spring 2017. This is their tribute to the extinct Hawaiian po’o-uli bird.\u00a0 Behind black bird-masks The last three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","category-artist-projects","category-extinct-species-stories","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RX4u-5O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The last three po\u02bbo-uli<\/div>\nWithin their three close home ranges (in \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba<\/div>\nRain forest, on Maui), refusing to leave those, thus<\/div>\nRefusing to procreate in any way. Gone ex-<\/div>\nTinct November 26, 2004<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nHinter schwarzen Vogelmasken<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nDie drei letzten Po\u02bbo-uli
\nIn ihren drei nahen Revieren (in \u02bbO\u0304hi\u02bba-<\/div>\nRegenwald, auf Maui), sich weigernd diese zu verlassen, so<\/div>\nJede Fortzupflanzung verweigernd. Ausge-
\nStorben 26. November 2004<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n