Forest Bird News Today

Maui Mayor Richard T. Bissen, Jr. signed a proclamation to recognize 2024 as Ka Makahiki o Nā Manu Nahele, Year of The Forest Birds, on Wednesday. This action follows Gov. Josh Green, M.D.’s proclamation in January and county proclamations on Hawaiʻi Island on Feb. 1, and on Kaua‘i on March 11.

Virtual Field Trip Brings Hawaiʻi Forest Birds Into Classrooms

The Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, near Volcano, is one of two centers operated through a partnership between San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife, for the care and perpetuation of numerous critically endangered Hawaiian forest birds.

The Maui News Artists are welcome to submit entries to the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) in the 2024-25 Hawai‘i Wildlife Conservation and Ga

Artwork sought to feature the Melanistic Mutant (blue) Pheasant and a Hawaiian forest bird.

Howard Reich reviews Lyric Opera of Chicago's staging of Wagner's "Siegfried," an installment of the ongoing "Ring" cycle.

Erin Morley, a fixture at the Met for over a decade, is now singing the title role in “Eurydice.”

May 1—State and federal conservation officials are moving forward with a plan to capture up to 30 critically endangered kiwikiu and then ship them to the mainland in a move to prevent the rapidly declining native forest bird, also known as the Maui parrotbill, from going extinct. But the plan, detailed in a recent presentation to the state Board of Land and Natural Resources, has drawn some ...