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Posted Mon Jan 23 2012: from University of Hawaii at Manoa via ScienceDaily:
Native Forest Birds in Hawaii in Unprecedented Trouble http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1327332100
Native birds at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge are in unprecedented trouble, according to a paper recently published in the journal PLoS ONE.... birds are now so food-deprived that they take up to twice as long replace their feathers, an annual process known as molt. The authors confirmed the hypothesis that Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus) birds are effectively competing with most species of native birds. Their research found that both young and adult birds took longer to complete their molt.
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