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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, 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.)

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Feral Cats Eat Endangered Petrels

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Scientists might find it more challenging to seek out evidence of which bird species, particularly non-Arctic, island-bound species, are NOT preyed upon by birds. That would be news. Conservation American Bird Conservancy cats Hawaii petrels' At the risk of sounding insensitive, duh.

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

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Take Hawaii, for example. Fearing that a natural disaster, introduced species, or disease could wipe this fragile population out, the U.S. Further, fitting the birds with bands and radio transmitters, as well as monitoring them in the field , has greatly expanded scientific understanding about the species and its behavior.

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Shearwater Chase in Costa Rica

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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. There was even that outside, enticing chance of documenting something new for Costa Rica. Were there going to be any birds?

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Waxwings and their kin: Meet the bombycillids

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Its genus name refers to supposed similarities between it and the African mousebirds , and its species name refers to waxwings. Here’s the only known video footage of that species: Kauai Oo. Hawaii Oo ( Moho nobilis ), depicted by John Gerrard Keulemans in 1893. Spellman et al. Just months after Spellman et al.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

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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. I know he's a conservationist, therefore I know he will advocate for "managing" the "resources" that are sentient nonhumans.

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Petrel Paradise

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Fluttering Shearwater ( Puffinus gavia ) Flesh-footed Shearwater ( Puffinus carneipes ) Buller’s Shearwater ( Puffinus bulleri ) Along with these three were Two further species, also both familiar to North American birders, Sooty Shearwaters and Short-tailed Shearwaters. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.