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Coffee Talk at Kahuku: Tweet Tweet Hooray! ʻĀkepa Numbers on the Rise
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 19.064437, -155.678261
This section of the park is located an hour's drive from Kīlauea Visitor Center. Enter the Kahuku unit of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the ma uka (uphill) side of Highway 11 near mile marker 70.5, and meet near at the visitor contact station.
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Coffee Talk at Kahuku: Tweet Tweet Hooray! ʻĀkepa Numbers on the Rise
The Hawaiʻi ʻĀkepa is an endangered Hawaiian Honeycreeper that only occurs in five spatially distinct forests on Hawaiʻi Island. One of the largest populations is within the Kahuku Unit of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, where avian ecologist Seth Judge, of the NPS Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, has been conducting surveys of native and non-native forest birds since 2010. Seth describes how population densities of ʻĀkepa vary among different habitat types and why the species has flourished in some areas of the park.
This section of the park is located an hour's drive from Kīlauea Visitor Center. Enter the Kahuku unit of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the ma uka (uphill) side of Highway 11 near mile marker 70.5, and meet near the parking area.
Reservation or Registration: No
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