10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, Currently extinct in the wild , the species is the subject of an intensive breeding program in captivity, and hopes are high to release some birds back into their native Hawaiian habitat later this year. No, not a magical place— you’re thinking of Tahiti, Agent Coulson.)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
Take Hawaii, for example. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well. (Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ). If it makes you feel better, though—and you probably need some cheering up after that—the situation for birds isn’t completely bleak everywhere.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
While his poem was about the dubious nature of boundaries kept in check by surly New England yankees, the sentiment holds true in Hawaii, at least. Specifically, the state’s Big Island, where a new fence was just completed in the hopes of protecting an endangered bird. Sounds something like a win-win.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2021
They covered so much water so quickly, so effortlessly, I understood how they could wander from Hawaii to Costa Rica, make steady constant progress over countless kilometers of waves and deep blue water. Also known as the Fairy Tern, this species breeds on Cocos Island and is very rarely seen from pelagic trips in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2016
Irruptions of Snowy Owls in 2011 and again in 2013 found these Arctic birds wintering well south of their usual range , in some cases straying down to Bermuda and even Hawaii. (I Many North American birders have, over the last few years, received a rare treat. I know, I’m still scratching my head about that one.).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2013
The excitement of this news, however, was tempered by the fact that all five species of this distinctive Hawaiian lineage are extinct, most having disappeared by the middle of the 20th century and the last, the Kauai Oo , flickering out forever in the mid-1980s. Hawaii Oo ( Moho nobilis ), depicted by John Gerrard Keulemans in 1893.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.
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