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 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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Hawai’i Audubon Society will be hosting a group meetup on Saturday, May 11 from 9-11am. We will be birdwatching at Hamakua marsh in Kailua, Oahu. For this event, we are partnering with Healthy Climate Communities, who will tell us about their restoration projects and the native and endemic species at the marsh. Participants are welcome
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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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The 2024 White Tern breeding season continues in downtown Honolulu! This walk will feature some of the breeding pairs that have returned to Oahu and have laid eggs and hatched chicks in the center of the city. Sunday morning is the perfect time to visit the terns peacefully tending eggs and chicks in nesting trees
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Our next adventure is the Pu’u O’o Trail bird hike on April 14th at 7:30am. This is probably the best public access native bird hike on the island! It’s a 3 mile round trip hike and the first portion is a bit steep and rocky, but then levels out. Hope to see you there! Note:
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We just finished our Bird and Learn weekend at Volcano National Park. We had about about 25 participants for the classroom presentations on Saturday. Seth Judge of Volcano National Parks presented his research on the Population Trends of the Forest Birds at Volcano National Park. Mike Carion gave a practical guide to using e-Bird. Kate Righter
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Hawaiʻi Audubon Society published this article in issue 1.2 of the Elepaio Journal in January, 1940. While this little bird was once a common sight in our forests, it is now threatened on Oʻahu, and vulnerable on Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi island. Listen to calls and see more photos of this charismatic bird on eBird. For
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