#endangered birds
Endangered Hawaiian birds find refuge in taro patch on Kaua‘i
According to University of Hawai‘i, six ʻalae ʻula (Hawaiian moorhen) chicks hatched in the loʻi in December. The parents had shown up a couple of months earlier.
High school students performing groundbreaking genome sequencing of endangered Hawaiian bird
Students at Kealakehe High School on Hawai‘i Island, in partnership with the San Diego Zoo Keauhou Bird Sanctuary, have completed the first-ever genome sequencing of the Palila, an endangered finch-billed Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to Hawai‘i.
Public invited to learn about Alalā forest bird recovery project, April 25
Dr. Hanna Mounce, manager of the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, will speak at the annual meeting of the Friends of Haleakalā National Park on Thursday, April 25. Her presentation will cover “Alalā Recovery, Maui Nui.”
Hawaiian forest bird initiative secures $3M boost to annihilate mosquitos, save birds in East Maui
At Haleakalā National Park yesterday, the Director of Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and conservationists involved in Birds, Not Mosquitoes, shed light on the ongoing project to save native birds on East Maui.
Kanahā Pond on Maui to get predator-proof fencing to protect nesting habitats
The new fencing at Kanahā Pond State Wildlife Sanctuary will provide safe nesting habitats for native and endangered birds by excluding mammalian predators such as rats, mongoose and cats.
Haleakalā Park Hosting Meetings About Suppressing Non-Native Mosquitos To Protect Birds
Haleakalā National Park is hosting a public scoping meeting Jan. 6 about a proposed Environmental Assessment for the suppression of non-native mosquito populations to address the impacts of avian malaria on threatened and endangered forest birds on Maui.
Conservationists Find new Home for Endangered Birds
Conservation partners were able to provide a new home, safe from invasive predators, for a total of 39 endangered seabird chicks, according to the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). Twenty of the birds were the endangered Uaʻu, or Hawaiian Petrel, and 19 of them were the threatened ʻAʻo, or Newell’s Shearwater. The birds […]
