Hawaii Bird Tours

08/09/2024

Thank you for giving Hawaii Bird Tours the opportunity to make a bright and beautiful young lady's wish come true - to see our precious endangered endemic Honeycreepers of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on the Big Island of Hawaii - who wouldn't wish for that!? 😍 Alison, Jen and Greg, hope you had a wonderful day in the forest! 🧡

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07/03/2024

Mahalo to Pacific Rim Conservation for all you do for our birds!

Have you ever seen or heard an O'ahu 'elepaio while out hiking? If so, we would love to know! Our staff monitors several populations of this endemic, endangered species, but we are always happy to receive information about your sightings to supplement our work.

We would like to give a special shoutout to Mandy Talpas of Hawaii Bird Tours for regularly sharing her sighting information with us! Learn more about Mandy's guided birding adventures here: https://hawaiibirdtours.com/

06/24/2024

This beautiful and elusive forest bird is the Greater Necklaced Laughing Thrush, introduced to Hawaii from Southeast Asia around 1918 and is found only on the island of Kauai. They are a tricky bird to see as they move around densely forested areas in small family groups, but they'll not stay in one area for long!
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06/10/2024

The Black francolin, native to India was introduced to the Hawaiian islands for hunting in the 1950s and 60s along with many other game birds. As with any introduced and invasive birds the worry is that they could be spreading non native seeds but recent studies have shown that the seeds can not remain viable after being processed through the Francolin's gut. Listen out for their distinctive raspy, metallic call in dry lowland grasslands on all the main islands.
📸 (Mandy Talpas)

03/05/2024

Come join us for the annual Manu O Ku (White Tern) festival on April 27th at Iolani Palace! Entry is free, and there will be a chance to talk with members of our team, and even better, see the birds themselves.

02/28/2024

COME BIRD WITH US!
I’m honored to support the and host their tour here in Hawaii April 2–11, 2024!

We still need 2 more guests to put this tour on go and registration closes on March 1st! Experience the best of Hawaii with a local expert. Most birders visiting Hawaii for the first time with end up with 40 -50 ABA lifers and this tour is shaping up to be a small group of less than 10 people!

Your local tour operator/ guide (Mandy Talpas) and ABA guide are proud to support local businesses and bird conservation efforts of and

https://www.aba.org/hawaii-birding-tour/

02/14/2024

🎬 ABA Travel webinar: Hawai'i
📆 Friday, February 16, 1:00 pm ET
🌐 Click here to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eSI9-0zqQDKfeOcabsFCLA

In this fun and breezy webinar, Ted Floyd, Mandy Talpas, and Katinka Domen will introduce us to the wonders and glories of birding in the Hawaiian Islands region. Our tour will start in downtown Honolulu, with its too-good-to-be-true White Terns (or Fairy Terns). Then we will visit the incredible interiors of O'ahu, Kaua'i, and Hawai'i ("The Big Island"). We will meet some of the endemic forest songbirds, and we will discuss the unique habitats where they are found. We will also visit spots right along the ocean, where we will have unforgettable encounters with frigatebirds, bo***es, and tubenoses. We will enjoy a full-day pelagic trip out of Hawai'i, with fabulous opportunities for study of seabirds that are rare or totally absent anywhere else in the ABA Area. In addition to sampling birds in this presentation, we will get a quick "crash course" on the remarkable and inspiring human history of the Hawaiian Islands, along with the dire conservation challenges for birds and other wildlife there. We are looking forward to joining you for this vicarious tour of Hawai'i on Friday, Feb. 16, 1:00 pm ET—and we hope to see you there in April!

🌐 Click here to register for the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eSI9-0zqQDKfeOcabsFCLA

🔎For more information about this and other ABA tours, visit aba.org/travel

01/26/2024

MAHALO again PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION!
https://www.islandarks.org/species.htm
https://pacificrimconservation.org/conservation/bird-translocations/

We have our first nunulu (Bonin petrel) nests of the season! Over the weekend 4 pairs nested in our artificial burrows, and we hope to find several more nests in the coming weeks!

05/27/2023

05/15/2023

Interested in learning more about how we choose the species and sites we work on? Join us and the Pacific Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change Management Network this Wednesday for a talk on the highest priority management items for seabirds across the Pacific.

04/20/2023

Our first Hawaiian Petrel of the season is back at Nihoku! A female from our 2016 translocation cohort who also had a nest last year was the first to return. We're excited for the upcoming season to see how many nests we have; stay tuned!

02/02/2023

Not to be left out, we also have five active Tristrams storm-petrels so far this season. While many of the Bonin Petrels have chosen to dig their own burrows, these little birds still enjoy their custom made burrows 😊.

02/02/2023

We have our first Bonin Petrel nests of the season! With at least 17 pairs hanging out in burrows this year, we’re hopeful that these returning translocated chicks will have many more nests. www.islandarks.org

01/22/2023

After close to 65 days of incubation, Laysan Albatross eggs across Hawai`i are beginning to hatch! The hatching stage (when eggs are 'pipped') can last up to five days before the chicks finally break free of the egg. During this time you can often hear the parents calling, and the chicks responding, from inside the egg.

11/11/2022

10/02/2022

https://www.nextavenue.org/birdwatching-and-your-brain/

Curiosity, natural environments, and social connections are some of the health-boosting benefits of being a birder