Tag: Hawaii

Blainville’s beaked whales rely heavily on echolocation to track down prey during deep dives under the ocean’s surface. They use clicks to locate squid hundreds of meters down, sometimes diving...

New legislation in Hawaii will restrict the amount of outdoor lighting residents can use in Maui in an attempt to lower the amount of bird strikes against buildings. While the...

A lack of predators brings out the color in chameleons introduced to Hawaii. Jackson’s chameleons (Trioceros jacksonii) were introduced to Oahu in the 1970s after being released by a pet store...

Mosquito control and captive breeding may be the only ways to save two Hawaiian bird species hurtling toward extinction on the island of Kauai. Only a few dozen ‘akikiki (Oreomystis...

The appearance of an invasive mongoose in Kauai is raising concerns. Mongooses are found elsewhere in Hawaii after they were introduced by the sugar industry to control rats in sugar...

A Hawaiian monk seal being treated for toxoplasmosis at a marine mammal hospital has died. The male was one of just four of Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) to be...

A female hawksbill sea turtle unwittingly ingested many of the chemicals in her body while feeding off the coast of northern Oahu for several years before 2012. By the time...

Avian botulism first hit Laysan ducks in Midway Atoll in 2008. The disease, essentially a form of food poisoning, threatened to derail the recovery work of one of the most...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to reclassify the ae’o, or the Hawaiian stilt (Himantopus mexicanusknudseni), from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The Hawaiian stilt,...

Most people don’t pay much attention to snails — especially when the pea-sized gastropods live on a rocky uninhabited islet in Hawaii and don’t even have a name. But Norine...