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Preserving Hawaiian Bird Cell Lines
Palila cellsThere is another side to the Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program that happens at the San Diego Zoo’s Beckman Center for Conservation Research. Our Genetics Division has preserved...
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Hawaii Bird Program: Open House
Staff member Blake Jones shares why Hawaii birds are facing extinction.The Keauhou Bird Conservation Center (KBCC) welcomed visitors on December 6, 2008, to its annual open house. Over 80 people came...
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Nene Awareness Day
For the third consecutive year, the staff and interns at the Maui Bird Conservation Center (MBCC), a captive propagation facility of the Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program, found themselves...
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Nene: Movin’ On Up
MBCC staff release nene into their new home. Red Rocket (#14) and NU (#30), our two oldest nene (or Hawaiian geese), have been around long enough to see plenty of changes. Both birds were hatched in...
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New Year of Nene Goslings
Nene goslings The San Diego Zoo’s Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program (HEBCP) is excited to ring in the New Year with the hatching of the first nene goslings of the season. The state bird of...
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Nene Visitors
Wild nene perch on the roof of the main building at MBCC, checking out the residents. Maui Bird Conservation Center (MBCC) staff member Michelle Smith snapped this photo on February 13, 2011, when she...
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Nene Propagation: End of an Era
Nene pair Red Rocket and Nu enjoy retirement. On June 24, 2011, we handed over four nene (Hawaiian geese) to Haleakala National Park staff, who took them away for release in the crater of the dormant...
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Hawaiian Birds: Pallets of Pellets
Palila specialize in eating the seedpods and flowers of the mamane shrub. Special birds have special tastes… or more appropriately, they have special nutritional requirements. Operating managed-care...
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Gather the Goslings Before the Gale!
Staff used binoculars to get a better look at the nest without alarming the birds. Since the 1940s when there were fewer than 50 nene remaining, this species has made a remarkable comeback, in part due...
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