#kauai oo

[cerebrodigital]

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[art-of-tek]

Some extinct species inspired by my trip to Allard Pierson this weekend.

Great auk, quagga, Kauaʻi ʻōʻō

[vermillion-vulture]

Meet the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, the fourth and final creature in my extinction series!

This cute little hawaiian bird disappeared in the 1980s thanks to habitat loss and the introduction of invasive animals such as rats and pigs.

For me, personally, their story hits especially hard thanks to a super heartbreaking audio clip of the last living bird singing a courtship song, calling out to his mate. He of course gets no response. At the time of recording he was presumed to be the last of his species, and his mate was almost certainly dead as she hadn't been seen in years.

:(

You can hear the recording in the video below. But if you're already feeling a little blue, uh... Maybe save it for later or something because OOF.

[ch0cocrave]

birdy….i love birdies so much theyre so CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!

here take this random bird (aka my favorite bird ever) from my photos <:3

kauai oo….

whats your stance on these guys? on when they went extinct (or whether they even are in the first place)

OMG-

The story of these guys make me so sad... like have you seen the video of the last male of its kind calling for a female that would never come... T^T

Heres the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU

[ its pretty sad... ]

The reason that these birds went extinct were due to the introduction to non-native predators such as mongooses, pigs, rats, mosquito-born diseases, and habitat loss. >:[

I wish they were still around- they rlly didn't deserve that...

[badly-drawn-doflamingo]

A doodle between fics

I love writing the fact Brook has handle stuff we don’t even think about, like ghosts and husks.

[in-vyn-cible]

I’d like to remind everyone that a photo of a nestling Kaua’i ō’ō exist and should give a BIG thank you to John Sincock who also has an unpublished paper about the ō’ō and his trips to Alaka’i swamp. This is the only known photograph of a nestling ō’ō. You can find this photo on the birds of the world website (linked in citation)

Sykes Jr., P. W., A. K. Kepler, C. B. Kepler, and J. M. Scott (2020). Kauai Oo (Moho braccatus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.kauoo.01

I hope the rest of his photos are out there somewhere. I was super lucky to be able to find his unpublished paper as well as some memos (shout out to Daniel Lewis who was able to send me the memos AND wrote about sincock and the ō’ō in his book Belonging on an Island : Birds, Extinction and Evolution in Hawai’i)

[angelicintention]

oh were talking about animals?

KAUAI OO.

Bird, oh, pretty! It reminds me of you.

It's a bird. How does it..?

It just does.

[entryn17]

started thinking about the kauai oo and almost burst into tears right in front of my roommate

[eucanthos]

Hawaii O’o †

Moho nobilis. Extinct. Formerly endemic to the Big Island of Hawaii.

Hear the song of the last Kauai O'o bird and learn more about what is causing mass extinction...

https://birdfinding.info/hawaii-oo/

[jeraliey]

I'm sure this would be a really emotional watch for anyone....

But when I was in elementary school, we were studying endangered animals, and we were all asked to pick one.

I picked the kauai oo, because I liked the name.

So of course this beautiful, tragic video just tore me apart:

[reith-sheep]

Forefront 4 Birdsong

It's a wonderful look at the late field biologist John Sincock, especially his last encounter with Hawaii's now-extinct Kaua'i 'ō'ō ( Moho brackets) of the encounter animated work. The animator's artistry and aesthetic are very sophisticated, even if this is only her second-year film at CalArts. I love her postage-stamp-like style of pen drawing. She's always been very good with that.

She has also put out some tutorials on how she combines these things together beautifully, and I love the way she combines and discusses the Eastern and Western painting styles. It's a digital painting that combines a Western sketching relationship with an Eastern layered ink painting style. The relative feel of her use of ink brushes in this was new to me.

I was drawn to her style of drawing like early American movie posters, the combined use of materials, and the little thought that went into conceiving the story, and she suggested ending the film with the buzzing of mosquitoes. This is a small reference to the main factors that led to the extinction of ʻoʻō on Kauai. In the 1800s, mosquitoes were accidentally introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by ship. They brought with them avian malaria, a disease that many birds could not fight off. In this sense, island life is extremely fragile and human behaviour (intentional or not) can completely change the equation of the surrounding environment. I really like this form of buried eggs. This kind of iterative approach to sound effects is something I would like to learn. I will try to use more forms of using sound to convey information for my future projects.

reference

(No date) Thekidshouldseethis.com. Available at: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/birdsong-hawaii-kauai-oo-extinction-animation (Accessed: May 8, 2023).

lemoncholy (2020) SHANGHAI | Speedpaint + Video Journal. Youtube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OyeuOnz0sI (Accessed: May 8, 2023).

lemoncholy (2022) Birdsong (CalArts Film 2022). Youtube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4_dq_e4KGs (Accessed: May 8, 2023).

[lettherebemonsters]

Listening to the last song of the Kauai Oo bird is soul-shattering. This cute little bird, along with the Passenger Pigeon, died alone with a broken heart.

[artfulanimal]

thank youuu!!! ^_^

also dont fret! twas not consecutive. (im referring to the list) i just kept adding birds and piling them on until i just kind of abandoned the list.

of course, number one was kauai oo. and number two was canaries

freaky bird (searched up kaua'i 'ō'ō)

I like a bird... Vampire finches because they're scary!!! Rahhh >:3c/silly

[linguisticparadox]

You can listen to the recording here:

This was quite haunting to read.

[ch0cocrave]

tbh they arent like entirely wrong tho they could be onto something because how do we have recordings. that we can access. on platforms like youtube??? actually idk anything about technology or how things were in the 80s i should stip talking like a know it all

but i guess it wouldnt be IMPOSSIBLE for them to be endangered and in parks in hawaii…though im still not willing to believe that ://

when you search kauai oo most images are probably old photos orrrr paintings or just CORPSES.

mongooses im coming for you. and pigs apparently. and scientists. im especially coning for the scientists.

>:[[ FR THO-

Those mongooses won't know what hit 'em XD

[buzzdixonwriter]

The Right To Be King [FICTOID]

The nice thing about being the king ids hat you can do any damn fool thing you want and nobody can say bupkis about it.

Take the case of King Leopold the 33 1/3rd and the fabulous marijuana waterfall.  While an undergraduate at a prestigious university (in reality a day care center for ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray scions of nobility), he heard of the fabulous marijuana waterfall in Kauai from a friend of a friend of a friend of a passing acquaintance of a total stranger who originally heard it from a burned out 80-year old brain dead hippie with no teeth living in an old refrigerator packing carton in a homeless encampment south of Portland.

“It’s like…wow, man.  There’s this like waterfall, y’dig, and it comes from a stream that flows through a patch of the most potent natural hemp plants imaginable, man, and it like infuses the water, man, and you can get high just drinking it.”

When his father died in a tragic helicopter polo accident (the judges awarded his time the game in honor of the late monarch’s supreme sacrifice to sportsmanship), Leopold the 33 1/3rd the affairs of state too weighty for his lightweight (some say weightless) mind.

“I must go on a quest,” he proclaimed one day and in a matter of hours his staff ordered the necessary equipment and booked passage to Kauai.

There followed a week of aimlessly wandering around the island’s backwaters.  A more keen-eyed observer than King Leopold the 33 1/3rd might have noticed his native guides kept leading him in circles (actually figure 8s so their subterfuge wouldn’t be too obvious) before finally “discovering” the fabled marijuana waterfall.

“There it is,” said the guides.  “Taste it.”

Taste it he did, and King Leopold the 33 1/3rd proclaimed it good, if not god.  It hit him like a Mack truck made of feathers and the blissful high that ensued gave him a great feeling of peace.

Meanwhile, courtiers made sure a never ending supply of synthetic THC got dumped into the water source upstream, keeping King Leopold the 33 1/3rd blissfully occupied for the rest of his reign, much to the relief of said courtiers who handled the routine day-to-day business of actually running the country.

  © Buzz Dixon