Akohekohe Honeycreepers Attack Like Magnum PI's Knight Lasts Forever

Summary: Akohekohe honeycreepers act as adamantly about activity areas as Robin's Nesters about the White Knight on Magnum PI's Knight Lasts Forever Oct. 11, 2019.

Illustration by English zoological artist Frederick William Frohawk (July 16, 1861-Dec. 10, 1946) shows akohekohe honeycreepers (Palmeria dolii); immature (above) collected by British ornithologist and explorer Scott Barchard Wilson (May 29-1864-Jan. 20, 1923), and adult (below) collected by British entomologist, ornithologist and naturalist R.C.L. (Robert Cyril Layman) Perkins (Nov. 15, 1866-Sept. 29, 1955); S.B. Wilson, Aves Hawaiienses (1890-1899), Plate 8, opposite page 1 (15): Not in copyright, via Biodiversity Heritage Library

Akohekohe honeycreepers are as audacious against aggressors in activity areas as Robin's Nesters about the White Knight on Magnum PI action police drama television series episode Knight Lasts Forever Oct. 11, 2019.

Director Eagle Egilsson and writer Neil Tolkin bring mercenaries onto absentee owner and best-selling author Robin Masters' Robin's Nest property for the series' 23rd episode overall. Season One's third episode, The Woman Who Never Died, Oct. 8, 2018, and Season Two's respectively conceal Emily Layton's (Catherine Kim) and the White Knight's identities. Robin Masters developed his White Knight novels from military deployments of Theodore Calvin (Stephen Hill), Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Rick Wright (Zachary Knighton) in Iraq.

The serialized novels exaggerate the extreme experiences of the three ex-servicemen, from whom private investigator and security consultant Magnum emerges as the White Knight's role model.

MI6, military intelligence in London, England, furnished Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks), Robin's Nest majordomo (from Latin maior domūs, "house principle") martial and mental skills to fight.

Kevin F. Fitzgerald, in his article for the second, 2002 edition of Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, groups Hawaiian honeycreepers by granted or guarded activity area access. Akohekohe honeycreepers hit with long, thin bills to fringe-tipped, nectar-sipping, tubular tongues and with strong-flying wings and, soccer-style like Higgins, with heads and long, thin legs. Female akohekohe honeycreepers incubate three successive two- to four-egg clutches in nests installed 20 to 30 days before mating, nesting and parenting seasons November through June.

Physically and sexually mature akohekohe honeycreepers journey between cup-like, leaf- and lichen-jumbled nests on branch forks and feeding areas for themselves and hungry mates and nestlings.

Akohekohe honeycreepers, known scientifically since Lionel Rothschild (Feb. 8, 1868-Aug. 27, 1937) and Scott Barchard Wilson (May 29, 1864-Jan. 20, 1923), keep black-brown-gray-yellow-feathered, white-yellow-crested juvenile bodies.

Akohekohe honeycreepers, labeled commonly crested honeycreepers and locally for their loveliest call, look gold-white-crested, red-eyed, black-billed, black-bodied, black-legged and crimson-, orange- and silver-splashed, spotted and streaked. They mature into the largest living, most territorial and strongest-flying honeycreepers, with 0.85- to 1.02-ounce (24- to 29-gram), 6.5- to 7.09-inch- (16.5- to 18-centimeter-) long bodies. Akohekohe honeycreepers, named Palmeria dolei for Henry Charles Palmer (Feb. 8, 1866-Feb. 8, 1920) and Sanford Ballard Dole (April 23, 1844-June 9, 1926), net daytime routines.

Akohekohe honeycreepers organize 5.5-year life expectancies around aggressive, boisterous extended networks of monogamous matings for communal and solitary feeding, nesting, parenting and sheltering in forest canopies.

Wet, windward acacia (koa, Acacia koa), myrtle ('ōhi'a, Metrosideros polymorpha) and raspberry ('ākala, Rubus hawaiensis) forests provide akohekohe honeycreepers nectars and caterpillars, flies, fruits and spiders.

Akohekohe honeycreepers queue up on Haleakala (from Hawaiian haleakalā, "the sun's house") volcano, quintessential habitat at 3,608.92- to 7,545.93-foot (1,100- to 2,300-meter) altitudes above sea level. They range on Maui, no longer on Molokai, because agro-industrialism, climate change, malaria-relaying mosquitoes (Culex quinquefasciatus) and wild boars (Sus scrofa) reduced their 485-square-mile (1,256.14-square-kilometer) habitat. About 2,400 survivors sound signature descending trills, low-pitched chouroup-tjook-tjook and hur-hur-hur-gluk-gluk-gluk songs and whee-o-whee-o calls from a 9.65-square-mile (25-square-kilometer) stretch on the Haleakala volcano's northeastern slopes.

Akohekohe honeycreepers and Higgins respectively turn away crawling, flying trespassers their size and tinier and two-legged trespassers her size, taller and thicker or thinner and tinier.

"T.C." Calvin (Stephen Hill), Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez), Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks), "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) and HPD Detective Gordon Katsumoto (Tim Kang) in CBS TV's Magnum P.I. season 2 episode 3, Knight Lasts Forever: CBS Magnum P.I. episode 10.03 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Oct. 9, 2019

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Illustration by English zoological artist Frederick William Frohawk (July 16, 1861-Dec. 10, 1946) shows akohekohe honeycreepers (Palmeria dolii); immature (above), collected by British ornithologist and explorer Scott Barchard Wilson (May 29-1864-Jan. 20, 1923), and adult (below), collected by British entomologist, ornithologist and naturalist R.C.L. (Robert Cyril Layman) Perkins (Nov. 15, 1866-Sept. 29, 1955); S.B. Wilson, Aves Hawaiienses (1890-1899), Plate 8, opposite page 1 (15): Not in copyright, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41338490;
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/8465167320/

"T.C." Calvin (Stephen Hill), Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez), Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks), "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) and HPD Detective Gordon Katsumoto (Tim Kang) in CBS TV's Magnum P.I. season 2 episode 3, Knight Lasts Forever: CBS Magnum P.I. episode 10.03 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Oct. 9, 2019, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2019/09/magnum-pi-episode-203-knight-lasts.html

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