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...
No shearwater fallout after 3 days without tradewinds
We have documented 45 downed wedge-tailed shearwaters, during 12 road surveys conducted every three days since November 3. Our last survey did not document any additional fallout, since the trades...
Tradewinds slacken... will fallout continue ?
After three weeks of persistent NE trades, they virtually stopped yesterday early afternoon. The wind remains weak and erratic, as a low pressure system moves across the islands. Currently, we have...
One Full Lunar Cycle
We have documented 36 downed wedge-tailed shearwaters, during 9 road surveys conducted every three days since November 3. Today is day 28 of the study, and our surveys have spanned an entire moon ...