10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

The number of wild geese has increased dramatically: in 1960, there were an estimated 30 birds on a single island, Hawaii, but the current estimate is 2,855 on Kauai, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii. Populations on Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii are stable or increasing, while the population on Molokai is fluctuating.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Now that Hawaii is in the ABA Area , the next additions should be Puerto Rico and the U.S. The Hawaii vote made it clear that that the ABA Area is about political borders, not geographical or ecological ones, and the two Caribbean territories have long been part of the United States. But even with Hawaii, there are many U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Because these lands include a variety of different habitats and range from Alaska to Puerto Rico and Hawaii to Maine, it is difficult to make generalizations about their impact on birds. But if one focuses on specific types of birds, the results can be both illuminating and surprising. Most of the key breeding locations in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2016

Something of the same sort may be in the works for Hawaii, with scientists considering unprecedented measures for the best of reasons. In the meantime, you might want to book a trip to Hawaii to see ‘i’wi while you still can. The law of unintended consequences, etc.) island chain was mosquito-free until 1826.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

I spent time with the Sooty Terns when I worked on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals , in the north of Hawaii. Birds French Frigate Shoals Hawaii tern Tern Island' Such is the racket they make that the one time I entered a colony without earplugs I was actually disorientated after five minutes. An albino Sooty Tern fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. West Virginia ranks 44th, Hawaii ranks 45th, and Rhode Island ranks 48th. And so on….

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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. “Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote poet Robert Frost. Specifically, the state’s Big Island, where a new fence was just completed in the hopes of protecting an endangered bird.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A highly imprecise reward is a day at the spa or a dinner for two or a trip to Hawaii. In a terrific paper on the subject, Scott Jeffrey compared the motivational qualities of two similar rewards – a trip to Hawaii and a $5,000 trip to Hawaii. Incentives. Good incentives rely on high degrees of precision to generate motivation.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2013

Conservation American Bird Conservancy cats Hawaii petrels' 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.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Hawaii 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5). A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This incredibly widespread species ranges around the Northern Hemisphere (and much of the Southern as well), and is found in locations as disparate as the Arctic tundra, Hawaii, Cuba, and the Galapagos – as well as many places in between.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

They stretch from the middle of the Pacific Ocean ( Midway Atoll NWR in Hawaii) in the west to the Atlantic coast ( Acadia NP in Maine) in the east. Federal Lands are Vital to Birds Federal lands are vast and diverse, from the far north ( Arctic NWR in Alaska) to the Caribbean ( Virgin Islands NP in the U.S. Virgin Islands).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For the most part the Black-footed Albatross is an all-American bird, with 97% of their population breeding in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (in the District of Hawaii), and a few others breeding in islands owned by Mexico and Japan. The Black-footed Albatross.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2018

But only two states have more than one bird named for them: Hawaii and California, with nine and seven extant and eponymous species, respectively. I suppose a case could be made for renaming California’s two avian endemics – the Yellow-billed Magpie and the Island Scrub-Jay – after the state to pull it into a tie with Hawaii.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2011

But the islands of Hawaii have two species that breed in considerable numbers, and the highlight of my time spent working on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals was spending time with these birds. As well as the island of Hawaii it also breeds in the Bonin Islands off Japan and has recently begun to colonise islands off the coast of Mexico.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

He offered two rewards for consideration: (A) $5,000 in cash or (B) a trip to Hawaii (of equal value to the cash). Then he asked two different questions of them: Which reward would you prefer: the cash or the trip to Hawaii? Hawaii is a reward they’ll remember forever. Hawaii is a reward they’ll remember forever.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2014

New studies find that: when birds migrate from the Arctic to South America, fragments of mosses, fungi, and other “diaspores” hitch a ride (and a similar phenomenon may have spread acacia trees from Hawaii to an island in the Indian Ocean); caterpillars which feed on many different types of plants are more attractive meals for birds than caterpillars (..)

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Israel Science Hawaii South America 191

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

To try to manage the invasive Brown Tree Snake on Guam, which has forced many of Guam’s bird species to extinction and as a way to try to keep the snakes from Hawaii. This article is fascinating.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The honeycreepers of Hawaii now have a family tree, with researchers from the Smithsonian having used DNA to map the entire family. Good news for an endangered family of birds!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

It ranges from Hawaii to Japan, and I really don’t know much about it, save that I only ever got to see some nearly fledged chicks. Black-footed Albatrosses One of Hawaii’s three species of albatross, this one isn’t likely to mistaken for much else. Pretty neat bird though. These guys get around!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2012

Hawaii’s state bird, the endangered goose known as the Nene , has recovered from a population of a mere 30 birds in 1952 to over 2,000 today. The problem is that they seem to find the area around Lihue Airport irresistible so they have to be moved. Clearly there aren’t too many Nene but more habitat is needed.

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Hawaii Birds 151

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The addition of Hawaii eliminated any notion that the ABA Area is defined by geography or ecology and the inclusion of the territories of Washington D.C. Virgin Islands not part of the American Birding Association’s ABA Area ? and Midway Atoll means statehood cannot be a prerequisite.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands United States Hawaii 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It does occur in Hawaii, which is where I saw it, but everyone knows birding in Hawaii doesn’t count. Whereas American birders may be familiar with Sooty and Bridled Terns as stormwashed vagrants to their shores, and might get the Aleutian Tern on a pilgrimage to Alaska, the Grey-backed Tern is a much more rarely seen bird.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2014

In a nod to Dr. Evil, a utility company in Hawaii is using lasers to keep birds from its wires and poles. The last-of-its-kind bird that may have inspired the animated movie Rio is an ex-parrot. The first bird feathers may have been for showiness more than transportation. News Bell Miner Birds Eurasian Blackbird kenya Zebra Finches'

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2015

Found in all fifty states except for Hawaii, the robin is also the state bird of not just Connecticut, but Michigan and Wisconsin as well. Few birds are as ubiquitous in the United States as the American Robin.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.

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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.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service has taken two dozen critically endangered Millerbirds Acrocephalus familiaris from their home island of Nihoa in the northwestern Hawaii and moved them to Laysan about 650 miles to the north.

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Hawaii Fish Wildlife Species 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

And, then there are the extinct birds of Hawaii, four of which are represented here— Kaua‘i ‘O‘o, `O`u, Po?ouli, ouli, and Mamo (also known as Hawaii Mamo). Hawaii, photographer may be Ahulan, his assistant, p. Yangtze River Dolphin in captivity, 1988, Wuhan, China, p. Mamo, held by Ted Wolstenholme, 1892.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2016

In Hawaii, they are found as high as 11,000 feet ! Ring-necked Pheasants have a wide and varied diet, which is made up of seeds, grasses, fruits, insects, nuts, and more. They forage on the ground, and are found in agricultural fields, grasslands, and even forests and deserts.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2021

He analogized the change to adding Hawaii to the ABA Area, which is puzzling since that modest change was preceded by years of debate, a membership referendum (in 2012), and a formal vote (in 2016). There are surely costs to change.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Kilauea Point NWR (Hawaii): 1,148,000; $34.3 Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0 million; 50 jobs. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 434,000; $8.6 million; 104 jobs. John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania): 358,000; $4.6 million; 35 jobs. million; 293 jobs. Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas): 485,000; $12.1 million; 412. million; 45.

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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. With quick stiff flaps and glides, the pair of small shearwaters flew just as fast as our boat, even faster!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Many are Hawaiian endemics : Hawaii has long been, and continues to be, the hotspot for endangered birds in the United States. The “ Class of 1967 ” includes 36 species of birds, and they range from those delisted due to recovery to those lost to extinction. The following is a roll call of the Class of 1967, five decades later.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2018

Alaska, however, is a tiny fraction of its relative size and is relegated to tiny space beneath California, next to Hawaii. On eBird profile pages, size matters: tiny Delaware is barely noticeable whereas Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri are conspicuous. But that’s better than other parts of the country, such as the U.S.

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