“…Micronesian Honeyeaters, along with most other native forest birds, were extirpated from Guam in the mid1980s with the arrival and range expansion of the brown treesnake (Boiga irregularis; Savidge 1987, Wiles et al 2003). Surveys on Rota, Tinian, and Saipan (the inhabited islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [CNMI]) have indicated that Micronesian Honeyeaters are less numerous on Saipan than on Rota or Tinian (Pratt et al 1979, Ralph and Sakai 1979, Jenkins and Aguon 1981, Jenkins 1983, Craig 1996 Engbring et al (1986) found that densities were greater on Saipan than on Tinian. On Saipan, Engbring et al (1986) counted 549 honeyeaters (mean of 2.25 birds per station Ϯ 0.14 SE), and estimated the total Micronesian Honeyeater population at 22,573.…”