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LOHE Bioacoustics Lab This is Pano Pau, one of the two male alalā that will live at the Pana ewa Zoo in Hilo.
We ve talked about the velvety-black alalā before on Manu Minute. But today we have some exciting news to share! Two of these incredibly rare endemic birds named Loli ana and Pano Pau now have a home at the Pana ewa Zoo in Hilo.
Although the alalā is called the Hawaiian Crow, it s more closely related to ravens.
Once common on Hawai i Island, their numbers drastically decreased in the 20th century due to habitat loss, hunting, and disease. None were left in the wild by the late 1990s.
Saffron finches are native to South America and were introduced to the islands around 1965. Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of
The Hawaii Housing Authority opens the waitlist
A large number of state subsidized housing units will become available starting this Friday. The Hawaii Public Housing Authority is making available the first of 250 units in subsidized projects across the state. It also recently reopened the lists for Section 8 housing. We talked to Executive Director Hakim Ouansafi about how he and his team have fared during the pandemic.
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Similar to nuthatches, these little birds forage for insects and spiders along the trunks of trees. They favor ohi‘a and will climb and hang upside down in order to get at a particularly juicy bug.
As temperatures continue to warm, disease-carrying mosquitoes are invading the last high elevation strongholds for ˊakikiki in the Alakaˊi plateau of Kauaˊi.
Fewer than 500 ˊakikiki remain. The Kauaˊi Forest Bird Recovery Project, along with the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center (KBCC) and Maui Bird Conservation Center (MBCC), are working together to create a breeding population in captivity.