A high-tech mission to save critically endangered forest birds takes flight at Haleakalā National Park. Honeycreepers were once a familiar sight throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Decked out in ...
HONOLULU— A judge has ruled in favor of conservation groups and the state of Hawai‘i, allowing a project to suppress mosquitos to protect imperiled Hawaiian honeycreepers on east Maui to proceed. The ...
Last summer, AWI launched a partnership with the American Bird Conservancy and Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project to save Hawaiian honeycreepers from extinction due to avian malaria, a disease ...
Hawaiian honeycreepers are an integral part of native ecosystems and Hawaiian culture. Some birds, like the iiwi (left), developed long, curved bills to sip nectar out of crescent-shaped flowers ...
PO‘IPŪ — Keoki’s Paradise has donated the funds needed to complete Bishop Museum’s collection of 59 Hawaiian Honeycreeper sculptures, carved by master craftsman Haruo Uchiyama.
Each is a member of a family of birds called honeycreepers, and they all share the same common ancestor: a single finchlike species that scientists estimate arrived on the Hawaiian Islands about 5 ...