The brilliantly colored 'I'iwi perches beside a lehua blossom of the native Ohia tree. The 'I'iwi is one of more than 50 species of Hawaiian honeycreeper believed to have evolved from a common ancestral species that colonized the islands millions of years ago. In the distance, white-tailed tropicbirds cirlce in the mist before a cascading waterfall.
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