Male mosquitoes do not bite birds (or people!), but very effectively find and mate with wild ... The success of this project will prevent additional extinctions of Hawaiian birds and help populations ...

“Hawaiian birds face many threats, but avian malaria, which is a nonnative disease spread by nonnative mosquitoes ... the species that don’t do as well in captivity will be monitored and ...

More than 40 species of birds known as Hawaiian honeycreepers and others are already gone from Hawaiian ... which will hopefully result in a decline in the mosquitoes that carry avian malaria. The ...

As with many other Hawaiian bird species, the main threat to the 'Akikiki comes in the form of introduced species, principally malaria-carrying mosquitoes and habitat-wrecking livestock ...