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David Pavlik is doing a photographic big year, trying to photograph 500 species in the ABA-area in order to fundraise for the American Bird Conservancy’s work with the endangered bird species of Hawaii. You can follow along at Birding for Conservation , where I learned that David has already reached 270 species for 2013.
There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. Take Hawaii, for example. Note: Some of the accompanying photos and videos are very powerful, but also not necessarily for the faint of heart.). Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).
In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. If something got rare we’d just tuck a preserve around it and keep it as a tourist attraction. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.
But as I and others have said before, it does raise a very practical question about what field guides, which have for the most part been slavishly devoted to taxonomic order, are going to do. Whether and where Bryan’s Shearwater still survives is unknown.
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). The Bird Names for Birds group (and others) have raised significant issues and they have done the birding community a service.
Not too long ago, the sight of Ain’t No Tang in the glass would have raised eyebrows, but after just a few years of cracking open so many 16-ounce cans of hazy IPA, its opaque apricot appearance isn’t so alarming. The nose is awash with the ripe, floral aromas of guava, passionfruit, mango, and mellow orange.
Go to French Frigate Shoals, in the far north of Hawaii, and you’ll find a chunk of rock no larger than medium city train station. It is the ultimate fate of those islands, and all the islands of Hawaii too, to erode award be replaced by newer islands. They rise, only to fall beneath the waves again.
They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more 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).
27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. Laysan albatrosses are ocean-dwelling seabirds who have 6-foot wingspans, weigh 7-8 pounds, occasionally sleep while flying, and rarely land except to raise their chicks.
If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. The rest of Mexico is not included, nor is Hawaii (which isn’t in North America, after all, but has been accepted as part of the American Birding Association area). I didn’t.).
Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Indiana teacher raises the bar for newbie birders everywhere by finding the state’s first record of a Black-tailed Godwit. Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Have you ever seen two Hammerkop pretending to be bunk beds? Now you have.
Birds and Booze News: Scotland-based brewery Brewdog has released a beer intended to raise awareness of the threats posed by global climate change, called Make Earth Great Again. Hawaii’s Maui Brewing Company is hosting an event on November 24th to benefit the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project.
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