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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, Fish & Wildlife Service). And if you’re lucky enough to be on the island of Hawaii next weekend (Sept. No, not a magical place— you’re thinking of Tahiti, Agent Coulson.) But it’s not always so wonderful for native flora and fauna. Take birds.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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Take Hawaii, for example. Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Bird Conservancy, and other groups teamed up to translocate 50 of the birds to another island, Laysan. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And Fearing that a natural disaster, introduced species, or disease could wipe this fragile population out, the U.S.

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