Hosmer Grove, Haleakalā National Park
Martin Frye and Monte Tudor-Long
Latitude: +20.768085°
Longitude: -156.236962°
Historic outplanting of exotic tree species at ~7,000 ft elevation, surrounded on different sides by native subalpine shrublands and wet forest.
Some bird species we may hear at Hosmer Grove:
Alauda arvensis| Eurasian skylark
Asio flammeus sandwichensis| Pueo, Hawaiian short-eared owl
Branta sandvicensis | Nēnē
Cardinalis cardinalis | Northern cardinal
Drepanis coccinea | ʻIʻiwi
Chlorodrepanis virens | Hawaiʻi amakihi
Haemorhous mexicanus | House finch
Himatione sanguinea | ʻApapane
Horornis diphone | Japanese bush warbler
Leiothrix lutea | Red-billed leiothrix
Paroreomyza montana newtoni | Maui ʻalahuahio
Phasianus colchicus | Ring-necked pheasant
Zosterops japonicus | Warbling white-eye
And two species we likely will not hear, but which deserve recognition on this page, as they are endangered and endemic to this habitat type:
Palmeria dolei | ʻAkohekohe
Pseudonestor xanthophrys | Kiwikiu
Link to NPS natural history of Hosmer Grove
https://www.nps.gov/hale/hosmer-grove.htm
Alauda arvensis| Eurasian skylark
Asio flammeus sandwichensis| Pueo, Hawaiian short-eared owl
Branta sandvicensis | Nēnē
Cardinalis cardinalis | Northern cardinal
Drepanis coccinea | ʻIʻiwi
Chlorodrepanis virens | Hawaiʻi amakihi
Haemorhous mexicanus | House finch
Himatione sanguinea | ʻApapane
Horornis diphone | Japanese bush warbler
Leiothrix lutea | Red-billed leiothrix
Paroreomyza montana newtoni | Maui ʻalahuahio
Phasianus colchicus | Ring-necked pheasant
Zosterops japonicus | Warbling white-eye
And two species we likely will not hear, but which deserve recognition on this page, as they are endangered and endemic to this habitat type:
Palmeria dolei | ʻAkohekohe
Pseudonestor xanthophrys | Kiwikiu
Link to NPS natural history of Hosmer Grove
https://www.nps.gov/hale/hosmer-grove.htm