Scientists Surprised To Find Endangered Seabirds On Oahu
Scientists have long documented the drastic decline of Hawaii’s only two endemic seabirds, the Newell’s shearwater and Hawaiian petrel. From 1993 to 2013, the shearwater population plummeted 94 percent and the petrel population fell 78 percent. Now critically endangered, they are almost exclusively found on Kauai. The two species hadn’t been found on Oahu since the late 1700s, just before Europeans arrived. But that may be changing. This automated acoustic […]