Extinction patterns in the avifauna of the Hawaiian islands

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Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss (2016, background): “The high extinction rates of ground-dwelling birds in Hawaii (28) and New Zealand (29)—both of which lack native mammalian predators—are cases in point.”
A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography (2017, background): “…animals, flightlessness, strong ecological specialization) have been associated with species rarity and their proneness to extinction (e.g. Boyer, 2008; Kirkpatrick & Peischl, 2012; Illera et al., 2016), case studies document that adaptive mechanisms can counter the genetic disadvantages…”
Patterns of Seed Dispersal and Dispersal Failure in a Hawaiian Dry Forest Having Only Introduced Birds (2010, background): “Humans have contributed to the extinction of native birds throughout Polynesia, including the Hawaiian Islands (Steadman 1995, 2006; Burney et al. 2001; Duncan et al. 2002; Boyer 2008).”