WAILUKU – Nine extinct-in-the wild sihek (also known as Guam kingfishers) arrived at their new home at The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) preserve and research station at Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south ...

PALYMYRA ATOLL, Hawaii (KHON2) — Nature has an amazing ability to recover from human interference. But, sometimes, even nature a bit of help to reverse human interference. This has lead organizations ...

WAILUKU–Six sihek (Guam kingfisher) are now officially living in the wild in the tropical forests of Palmyra Atoll. This release marks the first time since the 1980’s these beautiful birds will reside ...

Both birds were believed to have been extirpated, or made locally extinct, during World War II, likely due to disturbances to their habitat and the introduction of predatory, invasive rats. TNC ...

Sihek flying out of temporary soft-release home into forests of Palmyra Atoll. Photo by the Zoological Society of London It’s been 35 years since this “cerulean blue and cinnamon” colored bird has ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Three birds from Pittsburgh's National Aviary have arrived at their new home in the Pacific Ocean, where they'll play an important role in returning their species to the wild for ...

The answer is... Palmyra Atoll! Near the geographic center of the Pacific Ocean, the Line Islands stretch across the equator along a 1,460-mile (2,350-kilometer) arc. Toward the northern end of the ...

"It's hard not to feel like a proud parent seeing them out there thriving and making history," London Zoo bird keeper Charlotte James said Jonny Shepherd/TNC-ZSL; TNC-ZSL The once-extinct Sihek bird ...

Palmyra Atoll (December 12, 2022) - In the middle of the Pacific Ocean is an uninhabited atoll that houses underground mycorrhizal networks that may have evolved a unique ability to cycle nutrients ...

HONOLULU--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Nature Conservancy (TNC) announces that artificial intelligence (AI) powered imagery analysis detected two more seabird species at Palmyra Atoll (earlier this year, a ...