I find it interesting that a functional structure, like a lighthouse, has such a siren call that many people flock to it. Whether you...

In addition to my monthly posts here, I have also written short pieces and feature articles that rely on bird-related scientific literature. My impression...

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to some of the largest assemblages of breeding seabirds in the United States. These remote islands, some more...

More than 50 years ago, the Hawaiian Goose (Nene) was one of the first birds listed under the Endangered Species Act, part of the...

On Dec. 27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu,...

“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote poet Robert Frost. While his poem was about the dubious nature of boundaries kept in check by surly...

Hawaiian Crows Use Tools. From Nature, “Discovery of species-wide tool use in the Hawaiian crow“: Only a handful of bird species are known to...

In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, not a magical place—you’re thinking of Tahiti, Agent Coulson.) But it’s not always so...