Read the full newsletter 10 things we want to share about Red-crested Cardinals (AKA Brazilian Cardinals and Red-headed Cardinals) The species is native to northern Argentina, southern Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay. The Hui Manu Society (the forerunner of the Hawaiʻi Audubon Society) introduced an unknown number of these birds to Oʻahu and Kauaʻi between […]
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Read the full newsletter Plover Love: 10 Things We Want to Share About Hawaiʻi’s Kōlea (Pacific Golden-Plovers) 1. Hawaiʻi has its own kōlea population that spends winters in Hawaiʻi and summers breeding in Alaska. (Kōlea never nest or raise chicks in Hawaiʻi.) 2. The Hawaiian Islands are one of the few places in the world where kōlea associate
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Read the full newsletter Bird Scratching: 10 Things We Want to Share About Chickens Southeast Asia’s native Red Junglefowl are the main ancestors of today’s domestic chickens, however, interbreeding with three other Asian junglefowl species occurred later. Humans have been breeding, and transporting, chickens around the world since about 6,000 B.C. Researchers believe people initially domesticated chickens for cockfighting,
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Read the full newsletter A Success Story: 10 Things We Want to Share About Hawaiʻi’s State Bird, the Nēnē (Hawaiian Goose) By Susan Scott Nēnē is the only survivor of six endemic goose species that once lived in the Hawaiian Islands. In the early 1800s, about 25,000 nēnē lived on Hawaiʻi Island. Due to hunting, habitat
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Read the full newsletter Bird Droppings: 10 Things We Want to Share About Hawaiʻi’s Mōlī (Laysan Albatross) By Susan Scott Mōlī are the most common of the three albatross species that fly, feed, and breed in the North Pacific. 99% of all mōlī breed in the Hawaiian Islands. Mōlī nest at Oʻahu’s Kaʻena Point, the only
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Read the full newsletter Bird Flu Collides with Fallout Season By Susan Scott Just when caring Hawaiʻi residents are rescuing hundreds of fallen ʻuaʻu kani (Wedge-tailed Shearwaters) during fallout season, bird flu has arrived on Oʻahu. We want to help minimize the spread of this virus, while continuing to assist and rescue stranded ʻuaʻu kani.
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Read the full newsletter Bird Droppings: 7 Things We Want to Share About ʻUaʻu Kani or Wedge-Tailed Shearwaters By Susan Scott ʻUa’u kani are famous for the eerie sounds they make in their burrows. The birds’ OOO-AHH-OOO moans may have inspired the Hawaiian name ʻuaʻu. The word kani means noise. Because these seabirds eat fish and squid
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Part of springtime fun in Hawaii is watching our plovers’ changes color and size. It’s also the only time of year we know for sure that the bird we’ve been admiring in our yard, park, or playground is male or female. Kōlea begin shedding their winter feathers, and growing their breeding-colored feathers, in February. This
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