Photo By/Credit
Jim Denny
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Image
An ʻakekeʻe (Hawaiian honeycreeper) perches on a green branch. ʻAkekeʻe is one of several forest birds native to Hawaiʻi that are endangered of extinction. Avian malaria, a disease transmitted by invasive mosquitoes, is driving their extinction – for some species a single bite by an infected mosquito can kill.
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