Birds, Birdwatching and Wildlife in the Hawaiian Islands
WELCOME TO
BIRDING HAWAII
Birds, Birdwatching and Wildlife in the Hawaiian Islands
Aloha
The Birding Hawaii website is intended as an up-to-date resource on birds and birdwatching in the Hawaiian Islands, the Fiftieth State of the United States of America - the Aloha State.
It is hoped that this site will provide information for a more enjoyable birdwatching or wildlife trip to the Islands and make it easier for visitors to see many of Hawai'i's interesting native and non-native species of birds and other flora and fauna. It is also hoped that the site will help highlight the many problems that Hawai'i's native birds face in the ever-changing environment that man has created in historically-recent times, and highlight the conservation efforts which are being undertaken in the Islands to help stop and ultimately reverse the trend of extinction in the most isolated archipelago in the World. Hawai'i's native wildlife today probably needs more help than ever before.
The site should help guide you to the birds (and other wildlife) that can be encountered in the State and where and when to best observe each species. Some such as the introduced Japanese Whiteeye are so common that few birders will have trouble seeing the species, whereas some, such as the endemic Palila have small populations and a limited distribution and require more effort and knowledge to locate and observe them. Articles are included on endemic and interesting species which can be observed in the State, as well as articles on identification, occurrence, behaviour, conservation, taxonomy and other related subjects.
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Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness" - Hawai'i State Motto |
The Recommended Reading page as well as directing visitors to useful publications also acts as an informal bibliography for the site, with information contained within used to strengthen personal observations by Hawaiian birders, ecologists and conservationists. The Links page provides details of sites that may be of further interest to visitors.
Special Thanks to Jack Jeffrey and Jim
Denny for supplying many of the sites photographs, please check out their web sites by clicking on any of their
photos. All photographs on BirdingHawaii
are copyrighted by the contributing photographers and may require permission from the photographer to be reproduced,
downloaded or used in any fashion.
Most photographs on the site are linked to the photographer's website or E- mail, except where none is available or requests for non-inclusion have been made. All photographers retain © copyright of their photographs. Those photographs not credited to a photographer are © by Christian Melgar.
Also many thanks to all those birders and naturalists in Hawai'i who have helped,
contributed and guided in the understanding and appreciation of Hawai'i's birds and their habitats, special thanks
go to the following birders in Hawai'i who provide up-to-date sightings of migrants, vagrants and resident species:
David Kuhn and Jim Denny (Kaua'i), Peter Donaldson, Richard May, Eric Vanderwerf and Chad Castle (O'ahu), Lance
Tanino (Maui) and Reggie David, Jack Jeffrey and Thane Pratt (Hawai'i).
Go to the News, Events and Announcements page to find out the latest updates about the Birding Hawaii website or events and news taking place in the Pacific.
If you have any articles, photographs, reports, updates or any Hawai'i and Pacific news items please send them to us so that the site can be kept fresh and interesting, both to resident birders and those visiting.
Mahalo
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"In my view the best website on Hawaii and its birds there is" - The Fatbirder
Website, 2001. |
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"I really enjoy the birding news and look forward to the great reports. Your website
is EXCELLENT! " - Michael Walther, O'ahu Nature Tours, 2002. |
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The Birding Hawaii Website supports PROACT
Proact is a non-political, independent and voluntary organisation committed to coordinating and monitoring support for selected environmental campaigns in Europe and its periphery (plans to expand - slowly - worldwide are progressing!). Our prime, but not exclusive concern, is the conservation of birds and their habitats. |
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| The Birding Hawaii Website is constructed and maintained by Christian W. Melgar. No part may be copied or reproduced without permission from site owner. All photographic copyrights retained by photographer and no reproduction allowed unless authorized by the photographer. Authors of articles published here retain copyright & no reproduction allowed without their consent. No responsibility is accepted for inaccurate, false or out of date information. Articles may not necessarily reflect the opinions of the website or site owner. Spelling of floral and faunal names and text follows American-English or English in articles/on pages up to the end of 2001 if written by the site owner, and follows English spelling from 2002 onwards if written by the site owner. Articles or accounts written by other authors will be written in the English diction of that author's home country. Hawaiian names include glottal stops but not any other punctuation or grammatical marks (eg. macrons) that occur in the language, and no responsibility is taken for any mistakes contained within the site. Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature generally follows the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) United States Bird Species List and incorporates changes made in the 42nd, 43rd and 44th Supplements to the Check-list, as published in The Auk 117: 847-858 (2000); 119:897-906 (2002); 120:923-932 (2003), however in some cases taxonomy and nomenclature used follow Voous (1977) or Clements (2003) except where more appropriate names are available from other references and are in wide usage in the birding world. Alternative taxonomic orders and nomenclature for most species occurring in Hawai'i can be found on the Avibase Website. References used on the site can be found by clicking here. |
