ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Ashley Dayer, a Virginia Tech professor and conservationist, began searching for one of the world’s rarest birds in Maui nearly 25 years ago. At the time of her search ...
This film documents the effort to save endemic forest birds on Maui from extinction. Several species of forest birds found only in Hawaiʻi are threatened with extinction due to the threat of avian ...
A Hawai'i 'Amakihi, one of just 15 surviving bird species in the Hawaiian honeycreeper family, is a frequent reservoir for avian malaria. Originally, more than 50 distinct species of Hawaiian ...
New research on avian malaria, which has decimated Hawaii's beloved birds, explains how non-native birds play a key role in transmission and contribute to the widespread distribution of the disease.