ʻĀmaui

The ʻāmaui, Myadestes woahensis, also called the Oahu thrush, was a thrush in the family Turdidae that lived only on the Hawaiian island of Oahu and is now extinct. It was the first member of its genus to die out, around 1850, and some authors have treated it as a subspecies of the olomaʻo, Myadestes lanaiensis. Hawaiians used the name ʻāmaui for the thrushes of Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Oahu together, and the name derives from manu a Māui, meaning Maui's bird. It was a large brownish songbird of the highland forests of Oahu and may have eaten mainly fruit. Mosquitoes introduced about thirty years earlier spread disease, driving birds out of low-elevation habitat, and introduced rats attacked berries and nestlings in the uplands. No exact date of the last sighting was recorded, but scientists think it vanished between 1840 and 1860. It is known from a single specimen taken in 1825, now lost, and from subfossil bones.