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Some bird populations on the Big Island, including the apapane and amakihi, have shown signs of resistance to disease.

He produced a photo of a brilliant red bird — an apapane — and asked if anyone knew its name.

The forest they were in was a quilt, he explained, stitched together by honeycreepers like the apapane and iiwi as they drank nectar and scattered seeds.

Immediately, we hear the songs of native apapane, amakihi and i’iwi.

A rat destroying an apapane nest in a hapu’u, a native tree fern, about 10 feet up.