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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.
Recovery Effort Looks to Maui as Next Step for Future of the Hawaiian Crow
“We have forests that are similar to the forest on Hawai‘i Island where ʻalalā were released. There are abundant food resources in our Maui Nui forests; abundant trees that would be suitable for nesting platforms. And we do not have the ʻio predation risk, because we don’t have ‘io here,” Duvall said.
Six Palila Released into Newly Restored Forest
Six endangered birds were released into the newly restored Pu‘u Mali area on Mauna Kea’s northern flank on Sunday and Monday.
New Project to Train Native Birds to Avoid Predators After Release
The ʻAlalā Project, a group of government and non-government organizations, is working to restore a self sustaining, breeding population of ʻAlalā (native Hawaiian crows). The ʻAlalā have been extinct in the wild for over a decade and the last wild ʻAlalā were seen in South Kona more than 15 years ago. The ʻAlalā Project will […]