A Great Year for Endangered Hawaiian Seabirds

摘要

39 Chicks Fledge from Protected Nihokū Site in 2018 In 2018, conservation partners again provided a new home, safe from invasive predators, for some of Hawai'i's most imperiled seabirds. A total of 39 chicks,including 20 endangered 'ua'u (Hawaiian Petrel) and 19 threatened 'a'o (Newell's Shearwater), were moved from colonies in the mountains to the translocation site, called Nihokū,at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. In this location, they are protected by a predator-proof fence surrounding the Nihokū restoration site (www.Nihoku. org).