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The Ancient Mialoa was a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.
It lived only on one of the major Hawaiian Islands, Maui. It looked somewhat like an Akialoa but was sturdier than its slimmer cousins. It had thick leg bones that were a centimeter thick and were about three inches long. Its leg bones were the only parts of its skeleton ever found. It was estimated to be about eleven inches tall and was twelve inches long, one of the largest Hawaiian Honeycreeper in the world. According to body proportion, Its bill would have been four inches long and would haves ben perfect at grabbing insects from deep within tree bark. Pieces of egg shell were found withe bird telling us how the bird’s eggs were. According to what little was pieced together it seemed that the egg was half an inch wide and 3/4 of an inch tall. People are trying to figure out what cased it extinction. In most thoughts, the bird starved as more of it forests were chopped down for farmland and canoes. Others thought that invasive pests ate the bird and the plants that it feeds off of and killed off the insect population. The bird was extinct by the time it was 500 C.E., about 1,300 years before the first Europeans arrived.

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