Hawaiʻi birds

For the Year of the Forest Bird, we share some updated research on our threatened and endangered species. The Conversation talked with Richard "Rick" Camp of the U.S. Geological Survey and Eldridge Naboa of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge.

Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project avian field research supervisor Laura Berthold and former avian research technician Zach Pezzillo updated The Conversation on the story of MAPA1.

The Conversation spoke with Michelle Bogardus of the Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Service, and Rachel Kingsley of the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project and the ʻAlalā Project.

The online website allows the public to report real-time sightings of the invasive birds that devastate local crops and upset the ecological balance of the island.

The Nīhoa finch is one of two endemic bird species that call Nīhoa Island home. About 3,000 finches live on the tiny island, which is now part of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

The Hawaiʻi Audubon Society, one of the oldest conservation groups in the islands, is gearing up for its annual conference next month. The Conversation spoke with President Susan Scott about keeping the Audubon name, and the upcoming dinner featuring a familiar HPR voice.

Although endangered, there are still a few good spots to catch sight of the Maui ʻalauahio.

For today's Manu Minute, we've got the mating song of the rock pigeon, which was introduced to Hawaiʻi over 200 years ago. Thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology for these recordings.

ʻŌʻu were once common honeycreepers across all the main Hawaiian Islands, but the last confirmed sighting of an ʻōʻū was on Kauaʻi in 1989. This species is now presumed to be extinct. Listen to the song of this long-lost bird on today's Manu Minute, thanks to recordings from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

The koloa māpu is one of Hawaiʻi's most common winter migratory ducks.