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The ?auku?u, also known as black-crowned night heron, is found throughout the world's wetlands. As their name implies, these birds have black "crowns…
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ʻAukuʻu like a hardy meal. They are keen foragers and will hunt fish, insects, frogs, mice, and even young water bird chicks. Scientists have also observed ʻaukuʻu exhibit a clever form of "tool use"; if night herons are in busy areas where people feed ducks bread, they will often take pieces of bread and lure in the fish with the “bait.” Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
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'Akikiki, also known as Kaua'i creepers, are an endangered forest bird endemic to the island of Kaua'i.Similar to nuthatches, these little birds forage…
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'Akikiki, also known as Kaua'i creepers, are an endangered forest bird endemic to the island of Kaua'i.
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Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for today's field recordings.M?l?, or Laysan albatrosses, breed in large numbers…
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Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for today's field recordings. Mōlī, or Laysan albatrosses, breed in large numbers across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with nearly a million birds counted on Midway island alone.
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So how does a bird that's barely the size of an apple banana from the opposite side of the world make it to Hawai'i? Oh, the usual way. Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for today's field recordings of the yellow-fronted canary.
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Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for today's field recordings. So how does a bird that's barely the size of an apple banana from the opposite side of the world make it to Hawai'i? Oh, the usual way.
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Hawai'i 'elepaio are native species of Flycatcher - as their name suggests, they spend most of their time catching flies and other tasty insects "on the…
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The ae'o, also known as kūkuluae'o, or Hawaiian stilt, is an endangered waterbird found only in the Hawaiian islands. Ae'o were once much more common in…