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Budding environmental scientist Saxony Charlot inspires appreciation of Hawai‘i’s ecology through her art.

This Image of the Week comes from UH Hilo student Saxony Charlot.

Saffron finches are native to South America and were introduced to the islands around 1965. Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of

1:25 Manu Minute with Patrick Hart, March 31st, 2021. To learn more about Dr. Hart's work, go to lohelab.org. Similar to nuthatches, these little birds forage for insects and spiders along the trunks of trees. They favor ohi‘a and will climb and hang upside down in order to get at a particularly juicy bug. As temperatures continue to warm, disease-carrying mosquitoes are invading the last high elevation strongholds for ˊakikiki in the Alakaˊi plateau of Kauaˊi. Fewer than 500 ˊakikiki remain. The Kauaˊi Forest Bird Recovery Project, along with the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center (KBCC...

1:26 Manu Minute with Patrick Hart, March 10th, 2021. Today's Manu Minute was made with recordings from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML32588). To learn more about Dr. Hart's work, visit lohelab.org. So how does a bird that's barely the size of an apple banana from the opposite side of the world make it to Hawai'i? Oh, the usual way. Because of their cheerful song and pleasant appearance, yellow-fronted canaries was first brought to the islands as a cagebird. Then one was released, potentially on accident, from an aviary near Koko Crater on Oahu in the 1960s. Around...