 This is the call of the Kauai O'o. A hurricane drove the species to extinction in the 1980s. Hurricanes are posing a greater threat to Hawaii's endemic birds due to man-made climate change, says Chris Farmer of the American Bird Conservancy. One of the problems with climate change is it's increasing both the frequency and severity of the hurricanes. The effects on both our land birds and our ocean birds is going to be hard to predict, but probably bad.