Today, only 17 remain, and some, like the kiwikiu, have fewer than 200 individual birds. Their plight is mainly due to a sound out of place in a Hawaiian forest — the buzz of a mosquito.

Birds have been a critical force in shaping the ecology of the Hawaiian Islands.-- FOREST and KIM STARR photo Though plants may have evolved defenses from moa-nalo, these oversized flightless ...

An ʻIolani School senior recently took home a top prize at the nation’s oldest science research competition for high school students. Logan Lee traveled to Washington, D.C., earlier this month for the ...

In Hawaii, managing these habitats is essential to protecting endangered species, including native seabirds and forest birds, before they vanish forever, according to Noah Greenwald, endangered ...

In Hawaiian culture ... like rare snails and forest birds, to minimize the potential damage, per the Washington Post’s Dino Grandoni. On release day in early November, the five ‘alalā ...

The Hawaiian birds declared extinct today are a case in point. Their forest habitats were razed by development and agriculture. The introduction to the islands of mosquitoes, which are not native and ...