Kauaʻi ʻōʻō

And in the Monroe book, many of the birds that were in there were gone.

The O'o, the Mamo, you know, so many of them had, for one reason or another, died off.

Even the Nene at that time, you know, Nene were very rare.

There were none on Kauai.

That we've lost 75% of the native birds and we continue to lose them.

And so the Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project is very important in that they're trying to understand why the birds are disappearing.

In the late 1970s, 1975, 78, the last Kauai O'o disappeared.

And there's a recording of that bird, the male singing, calling for a mate that never showed up because there was no mate around.