Birding Resources

Birding Resources

• State of Hawai’i’s Department of Land and Natural Resources Native Forest Birds of Hawai’i.
• The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands Checklist by Robert and Peter Pyle. Bishop Museum Hawai’i Biological Survey.
• Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project has a variety of resources on Hawaiian ecosystems and job/volunteer listings.
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Revised Recovery Plan for Hawaiian Forest Birds. See part II, page 2-77 for the Kiwikiu species account.
• American Bird Conservancy’s Hawai’i Program.
• Hawai’i Wildlife Center: rehabilitation center for birds of Hawai’i
• Hawaii’s Birds: A Vanishing Treasure Complete (1989)
• Bell, E. 2019. The Evolution of Hawaiian Honeycreepers.

Video/ Media Resources

• Bird Calls Radio. 2019. Hanna Mounce, PhD. Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project.
• DLNR. 2019. The Rain Follows the Forest.
• DLNR. 2019. Kiwikiu Demo. 
• DLNR. 2019. Kiwikiu Release at Nakula NAR Short.
• Hawaii Public Radio. 2019. The Conversation: Setbacks to Maui Forest Bird Recovery Efforts.
• Voices of the Sea. Saving the Kiwikiu. VOS6-09 Full Episode.
• Ke Kāpili Manu Kahiko: Traditional Hawaiian Bird Catching

Field Guides

• Denny, Jim. 2009. A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Hawai’i. University of Hawai’i Press.
• Hawai’i Audubon Society. Hawai’i’s Birds.
• Pratt, H. Douglas. 2013. A Pocket Guide to Hawai’i’s Birds and their Habitats, 2nd edition. Mutual Publishing.
• Haleakalā and Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park’s Hawai’i Forest Birds App (download on your iPhone or Android in PlayStore)
• Audubon Bird Guide App
• The CornellLab Merlin Bird ID App

Books

• Pratt, H. Douglas. 2005. Hawaiian Honeycreepers. OUP Oxford.Powell, Alvin. 2008.
• The Race to Save the World’s Rarest Bird: The Discovery and Death of the Po’ouli. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books.
• Pratt, Thane K., Carter T. Atkinson, Paul Christian Banko, James D. Jacobi, Bethany Lee Woodworth, editors. 2009. Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Avifauna. Yale University Press.
• Walther, Michael. 2016. Extinct Birds of Hawai’i. Mutual Publishing, LLC.
• Ziegler, Alan. 2002. Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution. University of Hawai’i Press.

Also see Birding on Maui and Birding Links.