Millerbird

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Conservation status
Status varies per subspecies
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sylviidae
Genus: Acrocephalus
Species: A. familiaris
Binomial name
Acrocephalus familiaris
(Rothschild, 1892)

The Millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris) has two subspecies, A. f. kingi and A f. familiaris. The latter, the Laysan Millerbird, became extinct sometime between 1916 and 1923. The former, the critically endangered Nihoa Millerbird, remains the only race left, inhabiting the small island Nihoa in Hawaii.