Hawaii's unique birds, known as honeycreepers, are being wiped out by mosquitoes carrying avian malaria. The birds' last hope could be more mosquitoes, designed to crash their own population.

These birds are all considered to be honeycreepers. They’re native Hawaiian birds and have evolved here over 6 million years – longer than most plants and animals, so they are truly native Hawaiian ...

The lab-raised, non-biting male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs that will help suppress avian malaria ...

Almost all native forest bird species on the Hawaiian Island of Kaua’i are in line for imminent collapse, due to disease, climate change and other stress factors. News.

Native Hawaiian birds — particularly the honeycreepers — tend to be highly susceptible to avian malaria, which arrived on the islands only in recent history, ...

Something unusual has happened on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where native birds have almost totally been replaced by invasive species. In an unprecedented finding, researchers have discovered ...

Most Oahu visitors don’t get a chance to see native Hawaiian forest birds. They’re tough to spot on much of the island, and sightings in bustling, urban Waikiki are extraordinarily rare.