palila
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of palila
From Hawaiian
Example Sentences
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Indeed, there are a number of cases that have been brought by animals—including a palila, a marbled murrelet, and a spotted owl.
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2013
His favorite and longest-running case involved protecting a small finch-billed bird, the palila, by removing wild goats and sheep from the slopes of a volcano.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2010
Gnarled koa trees twist up from its tropical slopes, where the endangered palila bird, a tiny yellow honey creeper, crushes rock-hard mamane seeds with its beak.
From Time Magazine Archive
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