Open woodland, orchards, gardens, parks, and weedy fields with seed-bearing plants. Common at garden bird feeders.
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Song & Call Comparison
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Song & Call Comparison
Black Mamo
European Goldfinch
さえずり
A liquid, tinkling 'swit-swit-swit' in flight and a melodic twittering song. Flocks produce a bright jingling chorus. Male song is a sweet repetitive warble incorporating the flight call.
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Geographic Range & Migration
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Geographic Range & Migration
Black Mamo
European Goldfinch
Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. Introduced to Australia, New Zealand, and parts of South America.
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Conservation Status Comparison
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保全状況
Extinct
Black Mamo
Least Concern
European Goldfinch
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Identification Tips — How to Tell Them Apart
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How to Tell Them Apart
Black Mamo
European Goldfinch
羽毛
Crimson red face with white cheeks and a black crown. Sandy-brown back with a bright yellow wing bar visible in flight. Black and white tail.
くちばし
Slender, pointed, ivory-pink bill adapted for extracting seeds from thistles
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About Each Bird (Descriptions)
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The Black Mamo was an extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper known from Molokai, with entirely black plumage and a long, sharply downcurved bill used to extract nectar from tubular flowers. It inhabited the native ohia-lehua and koa forests of Molokai and was last seen in 1907, driven to extinction by habitat destruction and introduced diseases spread by mosquitoes. It fed primarily on nectar and likely insects.
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More Birds in Family
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