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Do Fence Me In: Protecting the Hawaiian Petrel

10,000 Birds

Though the Hawaiian Petrel lives throughout the Hawaiian islands, its numbers are low, and fewer than 100 pairs breed in the Big Island’s Hawaiian Volcanoes Natural Park (also home to the Mauna Loa volcano). Part of the threat to the birds’ existence has been ravaging by feral cats , which eat both adults and chicks alike.