Shearwater Chicks are Hatching !
Over two thirds of the 64 nests we have been monitoring since late July have hatched chicks already and we are getting ready to start tagging the parent wedge-tailed shearwaters by the end of this ...
Marking Shearwater Nests for Tagging
WThis week, we are marking 120 shearwater nests at the Freeman Seabird Preserve: One "experimental" adult from 30 nests will be equipped with a geolocator (GLS) tag capable of recording the birds...
Record Count at Freeman Seabird Preserve
On July 14th we completed the annual census of active nests during the peak incubation period, and the count yielded a new record for the Freeman Seabird Preserve: 427 ! This week, we will start m...
Expanded Road Surveys into Kailua Town
The last thee years, we have continued our surveys of seabird fallout along the Kalaniana'ole Highway, using a modified route from the Makapu'u lighthouse to Lanikai. Our surveys during the shearw...
Looking back at a decade (2002-2010) of wedge-tailed shearwater fallout along SE O'ahu revealed that 2011 was a year with an unusually high number of grounded birds.
Looking back at a decade (2002-2010) of wedge-tailed shearwater fallout along SE O'ahu revealed that 2011 was a year with an unusually high number of grounded birds.Hyrenbach, K.D., Urmston, J. &am...
Our results have been published on PLoS ONE !!!
Our results have been published on PLoS ONE !!! HPU graduate Jennifer Urmston has published the first chapter of her MS thesis. Working with U.S.F.W.S. special agent Keith Swindle and her HPU advi...
Completed 8-year project
We just completed an 8-year study (2012 - 2019) to compare seabird fallout before and after the switch from yellow high-pressure sodium (HPS) bulbs to white light-emitting diode (LED) highway light...
Unusually high Fallout in 2016. But Why ?
We completed the last road survey this morning, with a total of 46 downed wedge-tailed shearwaters documented during 17 surveys since November 1. Overall, 2016 was a year of fairly high fallout, i...
Only a downed shearwater in the last 9 days
We have documented 46 downed wedge-tailed shearwaters, during 14 road surveys conducted every three days since November 3. Our last three surveys only documented one bird, since the trade winds st...